Re: Let's take Moskus as the Hurd animal!

[Christian Mertes]

Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:21:24AM +0200, Christian Mertes
> wrote:
> > James Morrison <rocketmail_com@rocketmail.com> wrote:

> > Not sure if general public and media share your oppinion.
> 
> I'm not really sure we have to care about that. I think that
> the opinion of the actual Hurd hackers are more important.

Ok, but keep in mind that IMHO it's much harder to get anybody
but hackers to use it.

I don't know if it's because of the logo but I can very well
imagine that if GNU had a logo like Linux has more people would
know it. It's ok not to care about but I hear people lamenting
that few talk about GNU/Linux.

> > Seriously, I oftenly tried to imagine what Linux would be now
> > without Tux. I don't think they would be that popular.
> > Perhaps Linux wouldn't have been in the media so much,
> > rendering GNU/Linux users still a bunch of freaks. What I see
> > now in some tv shows and newspaper articles is a much larger
> > bunch of political heroes that invented a completely new
> > economical order. IMHO caring about that difference is no
> > mistake.
> 
> That's not because of tux, it's just a picture to identify
> Linux.

I disagree. It's the reverse of a vicious circle: The more you
get it in the media the more people get interested in it and
media deal with things that people talk about.

> It's because free software is just the Right Thing and
> when you keep telling that to people for a long time they might
> even understand it.
> 
> We actually never invented something, we just changed it back
> to the way it used to be (before the software industry was
> commercialized).

Don't tell me, tell the media.

> The media still don't get the real point most
> of the time and a logo isn't going to change that.

ACK, but it makes the media talk about what you're interested in
and the more they talk about the more they say the right thing
about it.

> > Furthermore it sounds as if you'd like to make the Hurd an OS
> > monster.
> 
> The Hurd isn't an OS, it's the core of an OS, the GNU operating
> system. 

Ok, sorry. OS core monster then.

[OpenBSD logo change]
> I guess that they changed is because they liked the new logo
> more than the old one.

The old logo is great, the new one, too. Perhaps they only wanted
something new, ok. But it definitely has its advantages.

        Christian

-- 
,----------------------------.          ___________________  `  _  '
| Christian Mertes aka mudd1 |   ...   |c_mertes@bigfoot.de|-  (_)  - ...
`---------------------------(_  ( oo)  |___________________|  '   `  (. .)
----------------------------ooO--(_)--Ooo-------| |--------------ooO--(_)--Ooo-

pgpCUe6NGraE8.pgp
Description: PGP signature