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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More corporate looking by fembots · 2004-10-31 08:33 · Score: 5, Interesting

The new logo certainly has more corporate appeal, and its simplicity also allows different colors to be used, which means easier to place on different color background.

Coupled with a trademark, this might enough for people to push it to PHB.

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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.
Albeit? by HawaiianMayan · 2004-10-31 08:34 · Score: 5, Insightful

Try "in a lengthy process".

If you don't know how to use big words, please don't bother trying.
1. 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.
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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Not cool enough by systems · 2004-10-31 08:42 · Score: 5, Interesting

Personally I am very disapointed
The logo is not cool, not artistic, not insipiring, not anything ...
I really like what OpenBSD did, they know how to play with their logo, I believe this speaks a lot about the attitude of the people behind the project.
And it says, that they like and want to have fun!
NetBSD have made a terrible statement by this logo, this logo declares in my opinion that the NetBSD is not about fun anymore!
I seriously can't imagine a worst logo ...
OSS has come of age by mollusk · 2004-10-31 08:45 · Score: 5, Interesting

Finally, proof that the OSS community can produce something as generic, uninspired, and forgettable as even the best corporate marketroids. I can't wait for the upcoming Apache Mission Statement contest. ("embiggens a dynamic paradigm in scalable infotecture")

Seriously, is this the best that was submitted? Not trying to flame, but the best feature of a logo is a unique image that's easily remembered. Looking at the NetBSD logo I'm not sure if I'm installing an OS or playing in a CTF clan.

Note to the judges, If the text in your logo needs to be readable to identify your product, it's not a good logo.

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the contest, months of waiting... for THAT? by ArbitraryConstant · 2004-10-31 08:47 · Score: 5, Interesting

I'm sorry, but it's really hard to get excited about that logo. Seems to me they wanted to be so neutral, so inoffensive to everyone in the entire world that they picked a logo that means nothing.

That sound you hear is millions of geeks the world over saying "meh".

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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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Yours Sincerely, Michael.