1.2 MHz? lightweight, try a good ole Commodore64 and an AppleIIe? I stripped those down and put em back together in grade school. gotta love them "real" floppy drives too. good ole external 5 1/2" drives with a parallel cable connected to the back. ^_~
What I was really trying to get at is that that image isn't really a logo, in terms of design. It's a wonderful cartoon that in essence depicts very well the struggles to keep software open-source and the continuing struggles to keep open source up-to-date with the latest windows facilitations.
IMO the image is just a cartoon, and just that. It's not a viable design solution for a logo nor is it practical in its application.
Ok, it seems to me most people here don't seem to look at logo design from an ease of use or professionality standpoint, let alone from a design aspect. Everyone seems to be skating around the fact that with exception to the religious or mythical issues and the problem with a off-the-wall politcal cartoon feel, the design itself is quite the opposite of a business/ease of use point-of-view. Sure it's open source but NetBSD is in the "business" of supplying an open source medium for its users to enjoy and interact with. If anything the logo should almost have a conservative corporate fee, with just a wee bit of open-source attitude to the side just to show that open-source is the sort of black sheep child of the WWW network infrastructure not to mention the software world.
So keep your minds open guys. This is a world-based community, and there's probably someone out there offended by the spoof of the Iwo Jima memorial and there could also be some "religious stiff" offended by the devil/daemon aspect. Also remember that the general public doesn't know anything about the greek background of language and their english counterparts, let alone would they really want a lecture on it. When designing you have to take the audience seriously but not yourself too seriously. Creativity can come in spades but if you don't know how to apply it properly it won't get you anything but trouble.
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1.2 MHz? lightweight, try a good ole Commodore64 and an AppleIIe? I stripped those down and put em back together in grade school. gotta love them "real" floppy drives too. good ole external 5 1/2" drives with a parallel cable connected to the back. ^_~
What I was really trying to get at is that that image isn't really a logo, in terms of design. It's a wonderful cartoon that in essence depicts very well the struggles to keep software open-source and the continuing struggles to keep open source up-to-date with the latest windows facilitations.
IMO the image is just a cartoon, and just that. It's not a viable design solution for a logo nor is it practical in its application.
Ok, it seems to me most people here don't seem to look at logo design from an ease of use or professionality standpoint, let alone from a design aspect. Everyone seems to be skating around the fact that with exception to the religious or mythical issues and the problem with a off-the-wall politcal cartoon feel, the design itself is quite the opposite of a business/ease of use point-of-view. Sure it's open source but NetBSD is in the "business" of supplying an open source medium for its users to enjoy and interact with. If anything the logo should almost have a conservative corporate fee, with just a wee bit of open-source attitude to the side just to show that open-source is the sort of black sheep child of the WWW network infrastructure not to mention the software world. So keep your minds open guys. This is a world-based community, and there's probably someone out there offended by the spoof of the Iwo Jima memorial and there could also be some "religious stiff" offended by the devil/daemon aspect. Also remember that the general public doesn't know anything about the greek background of language and their english counterparts, let alone would they really want a lecture on it. When designing you have to take the audience seriously but not yourself too seriously. Creativity can come in spades but if you don't know how to apply it properly it won't get you anything but trouble.