Free Software Foundation Marking 40 Years Old With A New Logo

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67332

    Free Software Foundation Marking 40 Years Old With A New Logo

    Phoronix: Free Software Foundation Marking 40 Years Old With A New Logo

    In October it will mark 40 years since the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded by Richard Stallman. In marking forty years of supporting the free software movement, they have been running a logo contest to memorialize the milestone. Today that new logo was unveiled...

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  • Guiorgy
    Phoronix Member
    • Jul 2024
    • 51

    #2
    Happy birdday- I mean Birthday to them!

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    • rmfx
      Senior Member
      • Jan 2019
      • 758

      #3
      WTH is that pixel atrocity?
      Just hire professionals, pretty please...

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      • skeevy420
        Senior Member
        • May 2017
        • 8638

        #4
        That violates their Safe Space Policy. On the streets a white bird means cocaine or ecstasy, but putting it between the letters 4 and 0 is the context clue that they mean cocaine. 4, White Bird with 2 Wings, 0. Weed laced with Cocaine. That's what the kids call Primo. Degenerates.

        Birds are also a term of harassment for women that can mean they're stupid (bird brained), that they're loud and annoying (squawking like a bird), and that they're good at certain sexual acts due to how they're head bobs in and out really well like how some birds are good at. Because the bird sees 40 years old and flies off it can also be seen as sexist and that the men behind the FSF prefer younger women. Sexist Degenerate Perverts.

        And that's how you turn a perfectly innocent image into something full of drug use and sexism symbology

        I actually like the image, I just wanted to have some fun with the Safe Space Policy.

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        • mirmirmir
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2021
          • 581

          #5
          Thank you for 40 years of being based

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          • BwackNinja
            Senior Member
            • Jul 2012
            • 144

            #6
            So they:
            - Didn't waste money
            - Didn't compromise their values
            - Engaged the community
            - Got a decent logo

            If the worst that someone can say is that they don't personally like this temporary commemorative logo, the FSF has handled this better than anyone else I've seen.

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            • rmfx
              Senior Member
              • Jan 2019
              • 758

              #7
              It’s not just this logo that is ugly.

              The mess that is their online presence is alarming on all fronts.

              Atrocious website both in term of visual and structure, purely in-cohesive ecosystem, with no centralized repo and no coherent subprojects documentation and webpages.

              (Same goes for freedesktop but at least, they have a more central repo.)

              The complete lack of perfectionism for anything that is not strictly code in the foss world is really starting to get on my nerves.

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              • fintux
                Phoronix Member
                • Nov 2019
                • 52

                #8
                I hope the computer this was drawn on had zero proprietary firmware, including CPU microcode, and all schematics for all PCBs and microchips, and also that those were designed by open source software! Such an oversight in the requirements.

                Seriously though, I kind of can understand why they required FOSS for creating the logo, but just making a bit fun of where you draw the line.

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                • elbci
                  Junior Member
                  • Nov 2024
                  • 16

                  #9
                  Happy Birthday!

                  Given how FOSS today means M$ corporation merges bugs into linux corporation without any (russian) developers review, maybe there isn't much to celebrate but being a failure doesn't make you necessarily wrong. Maybe their tactics are not entirely successful but the idea of FOSS is as valid as ever and a radical Richard Stalman desperately needed.

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                  • guiaiolfi
                    Junior Member
                    • Jun 2020
                    • 23

                    #10
                    Originally posted by rmfx View Post
                    It’s not just this logo that is ugly.

                    The mess that is their online presence is alarming on all fronts.

                    Atrocious website both in term of visual and structure, purely in-cohesive ecosystem, with no centralized repo and no coherent subprojects documentation and webpages.

                    (Same goes for freedesktop but at least, they have a more central repo.)

                    The complete lack of perfectionism for anything that is not strictly code in the foss world is really starting to get on my nerves.
                    Exactly. If that's the "professionalism" they want to show to the world. It gives room to question what else they are doing wrong.

                    I guess that's explain a lot in the FOSS world, tho.

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