Re: Logo rip-off

[Måns Rullgård <mru@inprovide.com>]

Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> writes:

> Scripsit Måns Rullgård <mru@inprovide.com>
>> Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> writes:
>
>>>> I'd certainly expect a program as expensive and with such ambitions
>>>> as Adobe Illustrator to have it.
>
>>> On the contrary - a specific spiral template sounds like an extremely
>>> arcane and particular feature for someone to embed in a program.
>
>> Most programs of that type have tools to draw rectangles, (regular)
>> polygons, circles, ellipses, and spirals.  Those are all basic
>> geometrical shapes.
>
> I'm beginning to think that you are being deliberately obtuse.
>
> There are millions of *possible* spiral shapes that one could
> draw. Elektrostore chose the *exact same* spiral shape as the Debian
> swirl, and positioned the stock brush at the *exact same* point on the
> spiral. *That* is not just a default template.

How did you measure the shape?  How do you know that both logos were
not created using default settings?

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Måns Rullgård
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