On Fri, 07 Dec 2001 01:53:28 -0500, Henrik Gemal wrote: > 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! >
that is very easy for you to say, for some of us, the red star, like mozilla's is still a symbol of death and destruction http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1689000/1689997.stm Its no laughing matter.
