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NetBSD Chooses New Logo
jschauma writes "Live from EuroBSDCon 2004: The NetBSD Project announces its new logo. The logo was selected out of over 400 submissions in an albeit lengthy process, where the developers considered various important aspects of a new identifying logo. See the official logo contest announcement (to refresh your memory) and the official press release."
you bastard, tux is the shit. Also each distro has its own logo, and most of those are more corporate.
I'm glad to see a new logo. Why have a project associated with the devil, whether you're religious or not?
"an evil spirit"
"an extremely wicked person"
"often capitalized : the personal supreme spirit of evil often represented in Jewish and Christian belief as the tempter of mankind, the leader of all apostate angels, and the ruler of hell -- usually used with the; often used as an interjection, an intensive, or a generalized term of abuse"
Well, I know I'd never wear a shirt with the old logo on it, that's for sure. For those wondering what the old logo was, it's this thing. It had a few problems.
1) The ambiguously gay devils - no, scratch that, the flaming homosexual devils writhing naked to raise a 'flagpole'. Whoever drew this thing spent an awful lot of time drawing the fine muscles and bulging abs of those very 'horny' devils. They also all appear to be in various stages of sexual climax, and some of their 'tails' appear to be going from one's butt to another's crotch, as if it's something else...
2) As others have noted, the BSD daemons are mimicking the famous 'Iwo Jima' picture of the Marines raising the flag. Putting devils in the place of the Marines could be seen as disrespectful to veterans by some, while others might see it as glorifying war.
3) They appear to be stomping on and destroying a whole bunch of computers. Parts are littered about as if discarded, and some of the screens look like they were smashed because of the shading.
So in short, the old logo gave the impression that this 'NetBSD' thing was a militantly demonic anti-American homosexual cult dedicated to destroying computers.
It's a shame they changed it, it fit them perfectly.