FreeBSD Announces Contest To Replace Daemon Logo 716
An anonymous reader submits "The FreeBSD core team has announced a public competition to design a new logo to replace the current BSD daemon logo. The new logo will be used on the FreeBSD website, software media labels, printed media, hardware equipment, and more. The winner of the contest will receive $500." It's too early for an April Fool's Joke; according to the contest page, "this daemon character seems cute from somebody's point of view,
but somebody may think which does not suit for the professional
products to indicate that are using the FreeBSD inside."
I have an idea for a new FreeBSD logo (Score:5, Funny)
I'll do it.... (Score:3, Funny)
I nominate (Score:4, Funny)
BSD was dying in '98, it's gotta be dead by now, right? =)
that's not all, folks! (Score:2, Funny)
S A T A N (Score:1, Funny)
my entry! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:THEY SHOULD REPLACE THAT THING WITH A TOMBSTONE (Score:4, Funny)
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Born-again (Score:5, Funny)
Re:my entry! (Score:2, Funny)
WTF?!! Nobody's posted THIS yet?!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Last week I walked into a local "home style cookin" restaurant/watering hole" in Texas to pick up a take-out order. I spoke briefly to the waitress behind the counter, who told me my order would be done in a few minutes.
So, while I was busy gazing at the farm implements hanging on the walls, I was approached by two "natives." These guys might just be the original Texas rednecks.
"Pardon us, ma'am. Mind if we ask you a question?"
Well, people keep telling me that Texans are real friendly, so I nodded.
"Are you a Satanist?"
Well, at least they didn't ask me if I liked to party.
"Uh, no, I can't say that I am."
"Gee, ma´am. Are you sure about that?" they asked.
I put on my biggest, brightest Dallas Cowboys cheerleader smile and said, "No, I´m positive. The closest I´ve ever come to Satanism is watching Geraldo."
"Hmmm. Interesting. See, we was just wondering why it is you have the lord of darkness on your chest there."
I was this close to slapping one of them and causing a scene--then I stopped and noticed the shirt I happened to be wearing that day. Sure enough, it had a picture of a small, devilish-looking creature that has for some time now been associated with a certain operating system. In this particular representation, the creature was wearing sneakers.
They continued: "See, ma´am, we don´t exactly appreciate it when people show off pictures of the devil. Especially when he´s lookin´ so friendly."
These idiots sounded terrifyingly serious.
Me: "Oh, well, see, this isn´t really the devil, it´s just, well, it´s sort of a mascot."
Native: "And what kind of football team has the devil as a mascot?"
Me: "Oh, it´s not a team. It´s an operating--uh, a kind of computer."
I figured that an ATM machine was about as much technology as these guys could handle, and I knew that if I so much as uttered the word "UNIX" I would only make things worse.
Native: "Where does this satanical computer come from?"
Me: "California. And there´s nothing satanical about it really."
Somewhere along the line here, the waitress noticed my predicament--but these guys probably outweighed her by 600 pounds, so all she did was look at me sympathetically and run off into the kitchen.
Native: "ma´am, I think you´re lying. And we´d appreciate it if you´d leave the premises now."
Fortunately, the waitress returned that very instant with my order, and they agreed that it would be okay for me to actually pay for my food before I left. While I was at the cash register, they amused themselves by talking to each other.
Native #1: "Do you think the police know about these devil computers?"
Native #2: "If they come from California, then the FBI oughta know about ´em."
They escorted me to the door. I tried one last time:
"You´re really blowing this all out of proportion. A lot of people use this `kind of computers." Universities, researchers, businesses. They´re actually very useful."
Big, big, big mistake. I should have guessed at what came next.
Native: "Does the government use these devil computers?"
Me: "Yes."
Another big boo-boo.
Native: "And does the government pay for ´em? With our tax dollars?"
I decided that it was time to jump ship.
Me: "No. Nope. Not at all. Your tax dollars never entered the picture at all. I promise. No sir, not a penny. Our good Christian congressmen would never let something like that happen. Nope. Never. Bye."
Re:Born-again (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Slippery Slope... (Score:3, Funny)
How about (Score:2, Funny)
Seriously, people need to stop being such pussies. Beastie kicks ass.
Re:But... (Score:1, Funny)
Sure it is. Just tell them it's a cute Mammon, and everyone'll be happy.
Re:Succubus with Big Ones (Score:3, Funny)
Raul also did a penguin-girl around the same time. I wish that lazy bastard would get back to drawing bonza chicas!
Pentagram (Score:5, Funny)
Time for my medication...
Re:I have an idea for a new FreeBSD logo (Score:2, Funny)
A venerable but crotchety old man. To reflect the spirit of BSD.
A smiley purple blob (like the Atlanta olympics). To reflect the inane politically correct spirit that this contest signifies.
Buddy Jesus. Because somebody else will say goats.ex.
Re:WTF?!! Nobody's posted THIS yet?!!! (Score:3, Funny)
-calyxa
Re:I nominate (Score:5, Funny)
Another contest (Score:5, Funny)
I have an idea for another contest. Design a sentence for the FreeBSD logo contest page that is comprehensible.
Re:I nominate (Score:5, Funny)
My suggestion: [home.sapo.pt]
Replace the one on the left with the one on the right.
Be careful what you tattoo... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I have an idea for a new FreeBSD logo (Score:5, Funny)
Already found something different:BSD Diva (Score:2, Funny)
BSD Diva:
http://members.shaw.ca/zerone/img/BSDiva.png [members.shaw.ca]
Re:I nominate (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Slippery Slope... (Score:5, Funny)
Dang! There goes my golden calf entry...
Re:A True Shame (Score:1, Funny)
I personally have run into in-duh-viduals who find the BSD beastie mascot offensive for "religious" reasons. And yes, these people really do need a full-body enema. The problem is that there are a lot of these cretins about, and they have money and increasing political clout. (Ref: "Dubya", the first president who can't spell the letter W!, and any comment by John Ashcroft.)
It is up to the FreeBSD project to decide if they want to "go with the flow" and modify the mascot to an inoffensive, boring and politically correct splodge, or take on the U.S. gummint and the Moron^H^Hal Majority. (Ref: Waco.)
Posted as AC with tinfoil hat on, for obvious reasons (Ref: reference to U.S. gummint, above.)
This is actually very important! (Score:3, Funny)
Wait, you mean that the only place that Beastie is currently seen in some companies is on a sysadmin's bookshelf, or his screen when visiting FreeBSD.org, and that no one else in the entire company will ever see it (or even know what FreeBSD is or how their company uses it)? Dang! Guess I'll be making an appointment with my proctodermatologist.
Seriously, how is this even an issue? I told my boss that I'd be installing FreeBSD back when I was first hired and started migrating away from Windows servers. I doubt that he even remembers which flavor of Free Unix I went with, and I'm 99% sure he has no idea (or interest) of the fact that their logo has a cartoon daemon. Does this actually matter to anyone?
Re:A True Shame (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yeah, what's wrong with Beastie? (Score:3, Funny)
This grammer seems cute from somebody's point of view, but somebody may think which does not suit for the professional products to indicate that are using the FreeBSD inside.
Beastie is the least of their professional image problems.
Re:I have an idea for a new FreeBSD logo (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Yeah, what's wrong with Beastie? (Score:3, Funny)
Rationale (Score:2, Funny)
FreeBSD logo = devil
devil = bad
!devil = !(bad) = good
good = angel
then...
FreeBSD logo = angel
Profit!
You say that like it's a bad thing... (Score:2, Funny)
You say that like it's a bad thing.
*Anything* that stops people from damaging their brain with Perl is a good thing.
Re:If they're replacing a devil... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A True Shame (Score:2, Funny)
In fact it's actually kind of a hobby of mine.
Late at night I sneak into the zoo and chase the penguins around their little tank.
I just can't help it they're so funny when they run.
Re:I nominate (Score:2, Funny)
I had no idea there was BSD porn... screw Linux, I'm switching to BSD!
Re:I have an idea for a new FreeBSD logo (Score:1, Funny)
Here's my entry: FreeBSD's new logo [unixprogram.com]
Re:A True Shame (Score:2, Funny)
Re:my entry! (Score:1, Funny)
A child's drawing almost made you solicit women for sex? That's fairly disturbing...
Re:A True Shame (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What about this very professional logo (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I nominate (Score:3, Funny)
http://unix.rulez.org/~calver/pictures/ [rulez.org] some favorites: http://unix.rulez.org/~calver/pictures/book4.jpg [rulez.org] http://unix.rulez.org/~calver/pictures/mod_perl.j