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NetBSD Announces Logo Design Competition
jschauma writes "The NetBSD Project has announced that it has
launched an international competition for the creation of a new logo. There
is a cash prize of US $100.00 for the winning entry. The successful logo will
also have wide exposure, featuring in all NetBSD material including, but not
limited to; the NetBSD.org web site, software media, apparel, and business
systems. The competition will close on February 29, 2004. The rules of the
competition, submission information and the design brief can be found in the
official
announcement, which has already spawned some discussion on the netbsd-advocacy
and current-users
MailingLists." The announcement notes that the current logo is "too complicated... hard to reproduce... [and] has negative cultural, and religious ramifications."
I suggest the currently skewered and dying Devil thrashing like a dolphin in a fishing net. Gets the entire concept across, donchaknow?
Put identity in the browser.
The cheque will still make nice kindling for the fireplace. Or, if you don't mind its scruffiness, you can still use it for a more obvious use, demonstrating your opinion of the American economy...
So political correctness has made it to open source.
Political correctness is mostly associated with the "left". I'd say most people who react negatively to an image of a devil are conservative Christians. I have been yelled at for wearing a Monster Magnet t-shirt. It wasn't even "satanic", it was a stylized bull head on a flaming background. I read an anecdote here on Slashdot about someone who was in the American Deep South on holidays and was thrown out of a store for wearing a BSD shirt, and veiled hints that he had better leave town.
But I guess its only bad if us darn liber-uhls do it, eh?
Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die
I was reading through some of these posts and it would would be nice if someone would actually read the fucking article and the fucking announcement. Then they might realize that the Logo Contest isn't about the cute little Deamon that we all know and love so well.
It's about the pile of Deamons doing the Iwo Jima thing on top of all your Monitors.
This image is a little tricky to duplicate and has some rather aggressive connotations. Far more aggressive than anything in the more generic BSD Deamon that you find on this slashdot page. I think their contest is well warranted and appropriate.
I once paid Jesus $6.66 for my lunch. Even more ironically it was right after church too :-)
And some of us think "this devil shit" is bad, but aren't afraid of a number showing up on our bill for lunch.