Re: [ossig] The Glider: Proposal for a Hacker Emblem

[Imran William Smith <iwsmith@mimos.my>]

He calls it a hacker emblem not an open source emblem
though.  Open source still needs an logo.  And a
community-inspired choice rather than an imposed
'solution' would be preferable...

The OSI 'logo' is no good because it's not a logo, it's
a trademark.  So you can't use it without some effort /
paperwork, and it's meant to denote an OSI approved license
(I believe), so what if you are doing OSS work that
doesn't involved software?  Documentation?  Evangelism?

Personally I don't like the glider - it looks too corporate,
too anonymous.  Some hackers 'get it', but younger
ones won't, and the explanation is long.  It can't
be customized either.  That's why Tux is a good emblem,
(however I remember thinking it was somewhat unprofessional
when I first saw it, so I am contradicting myself).


Imran

Tze-Meng Tan wrote:
> I wuz wondering what kinda "glider" until I saw it, cool :), I can go 
> with that
>
> On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 01:15 PM, Mukhsein Johari wrote:
>
> > Here's a proposal by ESR:
> >
> > http://www.catb.org/~esr/hacker-emblem/index.html
>
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