And the brutal repression of everything not red, white, and blue begins in America.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Henrik Gemal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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!
