NetBSD Chooses New Logo

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Posted by michael on Sunday October 31, 2004 @08:32AM from the camel-is-a-horse-designed-by-committee dept.

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."

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New Logo by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-31 08:33 · Score: 5, Funny

Maybe a headstone would be a more appropriate logo, no?
1. Re:New Logo by Zoko+Siman · 2004-10-31 08:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Netcraft confirms it, kicking a dead horse is still fun.
Hmmm by ShatteredDream · 2004-10-31 08:35 · Score: 4, Funny

So they dropped the BSD devils? I wonder what happened? Did somebody send a few planes full of Southern Baptists and Jehova's Witnesses over to Europe to have a little chat with the NetBSD team?

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1. Re:Hmmm by sydb · 2004-10-31 08:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I don't know about being Christian but there's no need to have belief in the Bible. It's a fact. It does exist. I've seen it on several occasions (usually in hotels for some reason).
  
  So, it's no longer a matter of faith. The Bible is for real.
  
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2. Re:Hmmm by geminidomino · 2004-10-31 09:33 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Daemons, please. Not devils. *BSD takes your sanity, not your soul. ;)
3. Re:Hmmm by Tony+Hoyle · 2004-10-31 09:34 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Yes this gideon bloke keeps leaving his behind in the hotels I visit.
  
  Damn forgetfull, if you ask me....
4. Re:Hmmm by MikeXpop · 2004-10-31 09:41 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Yes. They decided the devil was a little too risque, so they all decided on a more subtle, politically friendlier logo.
  
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Obligatory Tired Cliché! by The-Bus · 2004-10-31 08:38 · Score: 5, Funny

Netcraft confirms! The old NetBSD logo is dead!

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NetBSD Devils != WWII Soldiers by miket · 2004-10-31 08:46 · Score: 3, Funny

As a member of the US Air National Guard I don't like the devils raising the NetBSD flag in the likeness of World War II soldiers raising the Unites States flag over Iwo Jima. I hold the sacrifice of my grandfather's generation sacred.

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1. Re:NetBSD Devils != WWII Soldiers by zentex · 2004-10-31 08:55 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  As a member of the US Air National Guard I don't like the devils raising the NetBSD flag in the likeness of World War II soldiers raising the Unites States flag over Iwo Jima.
  
  Some Soldier you are! If you were better educated, you would know those "World War II Soldiers" were infact U.S. Marines.
  
  err...your only a guardsman, sorry to hold you to higher standards ;-)
  
  I was going to moderate you as flambait, but I felt compelled to set you straight; as my Grandfather was *ON* that island.
  
  Anyways, the previous logo was meant to convey the fact that NetBSD has "conquered" almost all hardware; nothing more. Don't be an idiot.
  
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Re:Albeit? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-31 08:49 · Score: 5, Funny

If you don't know how to use big words, please don't bother trying.

Albeit is not that big a word. Medium at most.
Re:better logo, yes by MetalliQaZ · 2004-10-31 09:18 · Score: 4, Funny

"He was basically forced out because of the huge egos in the NetBSD core team"
Ridiculous! Who could have a bigger ego than Theo??

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Re:Albeit? by Paradise+Pete · 2004-10-31 09:49 · Score: 4, Funny

parent shouldn't be modded flamebait, his comment is obviously correct
A post can be factually correct and still be flamebait.
You fucking moron. (There, see?)
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