On Mar 26, 2008, at 22:37, Darren Davis wrote:
> Simon Phipps wrote:
>> On Mar 26, 2008, at 22:15, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
>>
>>> It doesn't seem like the bubbles will stand on their own for brand
>>> recognition the way the penguin does for Linux or the demon does for
>>> FreeBSD.
>>>
>>
>> I don't think they are meant to - those are mascots, not logos   
>> (FreeBSD has a logo too - I'm not aware that Linux does though).  
>> The  wordmark isn't going away, and I hope we're also going to end  
>> up with  a mascot to stand hand-in-hand with Tux and the demon. As  
>> most of you  know I hope that will be a polar bear. With sunglasses.
>>
> Linux itself does not have a logo, just the mascot, but all the  
> individual distributions do.  Which is essentially the same as in  
> BSD.  Mascot for the base, logos for each BSD distribution.

Sounds like the ideal arrangement here. Maybe we should just forget  
the logo and worry about a mascot?

S.


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