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FreeBSD Announces Contest To Replace Daemon Logo
An anonymous reader submits "The FreeBSD core team has announced a public competition to design a new logo to replace the current BSD daemon logo. The new logo will be used on the FreeBSD website, software media labels, printed media, hardware equipment, and more. The winner of the contest will receive $500." It's too early for an April Fool's Joke; according to the contest page, "this daemon character seems cute from somebody's point of view,
but somebody may think which does not suit for the professional
products to indicate that are using the FreeBSD inside."
The religious issue I cannot believe actually warrents changing the logo and I see nothing particularly unprofessional about the daemon.
I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
...is anything like the netbsd logo I'm going to scream! What's wrong with the demon?
Silly rabbit
It's OK for football teams, canned ham spread, and vacuum cleaners, but not for an operating system?
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Practically, I can see where the horned devil might make certain religious people uncomfortable.
But if you're going down that road, then you might as well steer clear of offending other religions world-wide. That's right, no pigs, camels, or graven image idols, etc.
Consider how many Jews and Muslims have avoided learning Perl because of the offensive beast on the cover of the O'Reilly book!
"Provided by the management for your protection."
BSD is known by the BSDaemon. Why would you erase such powerful branding? This is absurd.
Plus, the Daemon is way cuter than the Penguin or that stupid butterfly.
This is truly sad. I can just imagine the new logo being along the same lines as the crap parodied by eNormicom.
Somebody get a high qual img of the Daemon over to Fark. Let's get a photoshop trail going.
We don't hear much about the PC of the right, but this is it. PC has long been associated with idiotic bending-over-backwards to not offend causes that the left likes (minorities, disabled, etc). This seems a prime example of an organization bending to the whims of the right.
It seems just like Fox changing the name "Best damn superbowl roadshow" to "Best darn superbowl roadshow"
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"this daemon character seems cute from somebody's point of view, but somebody may think which does not suit for the professional products to indicate that are using the FreeBSD inside."
I'm sick and tired of everything in the tech world needing to be made palatable to suits and PHBs.
I realize that complaining about it will be about as effective as trying to hold back the tides with a sheet of plywood, but that doesn't mean that we have to like it or accept it quietly.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/bsdversuslinux.html
What is this with software development groups? I wonder if vacuum cleaners loose any sales because they have "Dirt Devil" brand name (Beware the power of a dirt devil). What about the New Jersey Devils, the hockey team? Or Tasmanian Devil from WB cartoons? They dont' seem to be losing money, customers or auditory because of "unholy connotations".
If anything, this pondering to non-existant "offended" customers is a sign that a project is diverting its attention from real to imaginary problems. Logical step in a sequence of events that took FreeBSD from the true original to the project it is today.
Who cares? Anyone narrow-minded enough to avoid an OS distro because it has a d(a)emon on the cover can please go fuck themselves.
Yes, I think that this is what they are doing. I don't think the religious nut factor had anything to do with it. My understanding for wanting a new logo was that there really wasn't a logo for freebsd only a mascot and the name freebsd and some slogan attached to it. This isn't real reconizable in a lot of settings such as a black and white flyer. I do hope that freebsd doesn't do what netbsd did and banish beastie from the front page of their website.
...on a lot of levels.
First off towards the religious zealots that have no problem shoving their theology into your face, but will simultaneously raise a stink over your "imagined" alignment.
Second off, towards the Mac dorks with their kneejerk references of "THEY ALREADY HAVE, HAR HAR HAR" and posting links to pics that reference OSX. OSX is NOT FREEBSD. If you really believe that, then you just don't understand the UNIX philosophy. Go back to your art-fetish lickable computer and troll some other forum.
Third off, for squandering the the rebellious merits of the OSS and BSD community to get in bed with big business, which will undoubtedly turn into domination, regulation and corruption.
I have a few more but i think i've stepped on enough toes already. This actually makes me a little bit angry.
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It has nothing to do with George W. Bush (nice random bash).
I wouldn't want some cartoon devil character showing up on my company's computers either. It looks unprofessional and odd. I work in a real estate office. Would I want to have Bugs Bunny as the boot logo on all the machines in our computer room?
The word "bothering" in this case has nothing to do with the religious aspects and everything to do with the silly image in a professional setting.
Anyone narrow-minded enough to avoid an OS distro because it has a d(a)emon on the cover can please go fuck themselves.
Would you use Nazi Linux (logo: Tux with a swastika armband)? Would you use it at work? Would you try to persuade your boss that it was just a harmless logo, had nothing to do with the actual technical system, and if he didn't like it could he please go fuck himself?
I think not.
You're welcome to like Beastie. The corporate world doesn't, and the FreeBSD maintainers want to court the corporate world. If you don't like what they're doing, hey, nobody's stopping you forking FreeBSD and having a daemon for YOUR logo...
Or if you still want a daemon, maybe this by Coop will do. I am sure that won't be offensive...
What in the name!? I really really cannot understand it. How can Beastie the Daemon be at all unproffesional? For crying out loud I have a "Dirt Devil" vacuum cleaner in the house! Why would FreeBSD throw away this mascot that is so well entrenched? In a sense it has such a strong "brand identity" already. Do they really want to end-up with something so generic as the NetBSD logo?
Wow I AM a loser, I am taking this way too seriously. I never knew I was so attached to beastie.
Yes. That image was created with the Gimp on FreeBSD. I don't know of any good MS Paint alternative that'll run under FreeBSD, even though the Gimp is a bit overkill.
I actually tried to make an SVG using inkscape but, damn... vector graphics are a royal PITA. Especially when compared to the simplicity of drawing crappy artwork with my left hand.
This is my signature. There are many signatures like it, but this one is mine.
FFS, the BSD daemon is a great opener. Client asks what it is, you tell them that it's the logo for the secure, stable operating system you run your office on. Client is impressed, you make big sale. If the client is offended, you turf them out because they're white trash morons that can't afford to buy anything bigger than a double-wide anyway.
(I might add: why the hell are you booting FreeBSD anyway? If you can't afford the electricity to keep it running, you can't be much of an estate agent.)
adam