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Re: entry #2 [was: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest!]



> 
> >>>>> Andreas Tille writes:
> 
>  AT> So let us define first, *what* we want to show on our logo.  This
>  AT> is always the first step in software related things.  Wy did we
>  AT> step over it??
> 
> I'd like to see the black silhouette of a realistic gnu, trotting
> towards the future.
> 
> Cartoonish, stylized GNUs are already taken by the FSF.  I think a
> silhouette would be very elegant, easy to reproduce, and
> recognizable.

Hmm.  The gnu is the FSF mascotte.  I think we would need to distinguish
debian from the FSF.  There are strong interactions, but debian and the
FSF are not the same thing.

These are my current raw ideas:

On the idea of sharing software:
* software, represented by a string of zeroes and ones(`bit string'),
  going from one hand to another
* same `bitstring', going from one head to another

On the idea of `free' software:
* bitstring breaking loose from a window with broken bars
* software with wings (this is really rather vague, maybe a flying
  bird's silouet made up out of zeroes and ones)

Eric Meijer

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