Re: [PROPOSED] Swap the "open" and "official" versions of the new logo
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Seconded.
The "magic smoke" image is excellent (though I don't recall it being
about breaking open the package - but about applying power to the
wrong pins, or whatever, such that there really is smoke...)
The fishbowl image is good too (too bad the main MIT "fishbowl"
computer room is now an adminstrative paperwork center :-( )
_Mark_ <eichin@thok.org>
The Herd of Kittens
Debian Package Maintainer
Branden Robinson <branden@ecn.purdue.edu> writes:
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> I don't know how controversial this suggestion will be, but I propose that
> the official version of the new logo be the one with the bottle in it.
>
> Here's what I wrote on Slashdot about it, in reply to a message from Bruce
> Perens:
>
> *****
> I was going to propose that we switch the open and official versions, but I=
> was
> waiting until the voting on the logo was over. If the swirl didn't win there
> wasn't much point messing with it.=20
>
> I agree, the presence of an additional object in the logo should imply the
> presence of additional SOMETHING on the product marked with that logo.=20
>
> In my reasoning, the bottle signifies the developers, who have granted their
> official seal of approval. A bottle isn't too bad for this purpose...the De=
> bian
> developers all live in a fishbowl anyway, so... :)=20
>
> Anyway, I plan to refer to vapors above the bottle as magic smoke. Debian is
> what makes your system run; it's the "magic smoke". All the EE's out there =
> will
> remember learning in their microprocessor design classes that if you break =
> open
> the ceramic package on a chip, you'll let the magic smoke out and it won't =
> work
> anymore. :)=20
>
> Guess I need to get about drafting that proposal.=20
>
> -- Branden Robinson, Debian Developer
> ***
>
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> G. Branden Robinson | If you wish to strive for peace of sou=
> l,
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> branden@ecn.purdue.edu | devotee of truth, then inquire.
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