Should Hackers Get Their Own Logo?

Ridgelift writes "Eric S. Raymond is proposing a new logo for Hackerdom. 'The Linux folks have their penguin and the BSDers their demon. Perl's got a camel, FSF fans have their gnu and OSI's got an open-source logo. What we haven't had, historically, is an emblem that represents the entire hacker community of which all these groups are parts. This is a proposal that we adopt one - the glider pattern from the Game of Life.'"

Comments

Er...

[Chromal]

It's cool and all, but sort of obscure. I understand hackers were really into it in the 70s, but how do you anthropomorphize a bunch of dots? Maybe that's a statement about the hacker persona, though... ^_^

blerch

[Bender_]

... Just let the madman talk ...

Well, why not?

[Big Mark]

Teach me how to troll, fucknuts.

Re:Creation of logos

[brianosaurus]

Yeah. I've kind of always thought in the back of my head that ESR was just an arrogant asshole, but having never read his article about flea markets (or whatever), I kind of gave him the benefit of the doubt.

But this clinches it. This is HIS emblem. He's trying to further his cause (whatever that is) in the same sort of was as adding his own personal terms to the Jargon file. Yeah, he maintains the Jargon file, so he can put whatever he wants in it, but one would hope for some amount of integrity from a self-proclaimed "resident historian."

Then again, I prefer to let history speak for itself. If I'm a part of it, that's fine. If I'm not, I won't be going out of my way to impose emblems and dictionary entries on my peers in order to make myself relevant.

What a jackass.

(and this is NOT a troll. Any mod who labels it as such better have ESR's dick in his or her mouth when they click the button.)

Re:Um...

[Mad Marlin]

In the chance that ten years from now hackers everywhere will refer to this slashdot article as the origin of their symbol, I just wanted to post in it.

Along the same lines, let me take this opportunity to denounce this symbol, and the word "hacker" before the internet. There are two groups who refer to themselves as "hackers." The first are whiny little "31337 h4x0rs," and the second are whiny little "erudite hackers" like E. S. Raymond or R. M. Stallman. Somehow, the first group annoys me less than the second. I'm not a hacker, I'm a computer scientist, dammit!