Chocobo_greens wrote: >WTF is with the mozilla logo? >I use linux, i've used it for 3-4 years now, and I1 know NS 4.7 is not the greatest >browser, now that mozilla is moving towards 1, i want to install it, but i really cant >stand having a red star on my desktop or on anything i own for that >matter. > >Why on earth did the developers choose such a blatantly political (and >many cases offensive) symbol? is their intention to offend or insult? >millions of people have been killed in the name of that symbol, even >today thousands others are brutally slaughtered and here we see a group >for some strange reason embracing this. >There are places where the presence of a red star makes you a pariah, do >you not want these people to use mozilla? for no falut of their own.. > >Is mozilla communist or are the developers? or are they just sick >individuals who think it is funny that people have died? you should at >least have the decency to have version without the political images. > >Yes, i know that the red star is not just a symbol of communism, but that >is not an excuse, the gold/yellow bordered red star is a blatant communist >image.. second only to the hammer and sickle. > >What are we goging to see next? black swastikas on white and red? is this >going to be justified as being a swmbol of other cultures? for the record >the nazi swastika is a mirror image of its asian counter part and is also >tilted on an edge.. thus it is kinda easy to distinguish a nazi swastika >from others. A red star wouldn't be see as communist if it wasnt made in that style, >if anyone has even seen a few communist images or flags for that matter, they >know what style/colors are being used here. > >It becasue of extreme people like these that linux in general is not taken as >seriously as >it shoudl be and that is very sad. I was not shocked when i first saw the >logo but i thought it was a joke.. along with those "for the good of the >source" banners.. i've come to expect this from the the linux community.. >and its amusing.. but this is ridiculous. ( i know mozilla!=linux but >that is the primary browser.. everyone else might as well use IE) > >for the record, i dont use mozilla or netscape anymore, i use opera now, >its free, fast, very small and light weight and more powerful and is everything >mozilla should >have been but couldn't. Let that red star be a warning label to all, mozilla >does strive to be bloated, buggy, ugly and inefficient. > >I call for others like me offended by these images, to simply boycott >mozilla, i dont think we can change the mind set of the radicals and we >might as well let them play with thier star by themselves. >while most other browsers depend on mozilla, >there are other free browsers for linux and other unicies and i >discovered Opera is to be good alternative (www.opera.com) ... >
It's just a logo!!!!!! Everything that has a red star equals communist? Get a life! -- Henrik Gemal Mozilla Evangelist Get the latest and greatest Mozilla web browser at: http://gemal.dk/mozilla/
