Maybe there will be a way to *choose* yer logo, or whatever. Personally,
if someone from Amsterdam were to make a canibus leaf their official
bootup logo for there great fast new OS named "HempOS (tm) New and
improved, with extra THC!!!", I would not be offended, even tho I don't
use it, and it is illegal here.
What if the *absense* of a Nazi symbol offends skin heads? In the real
world, political correctness does not work. Is the penguin pro life?
NOTHING IS NEUTRAL. In Germany, beer is VERY neutral. So, just go lie
down. PC is a bunch of crap/shit/feces.
-Shawn
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On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, [iso-8859-1] Johan Myréen wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Linux logo is a penguin. We already cause much less offence than the BSD
> > daemon does in some parts of the world.
>
> The Linux boot logo is a beer-drinking penguin. Quite a bit of
> a difference.
>
> > It doesn't matter what logo you pick there will be someone
> > strange an weird enough to take offence.
>
> In this case, potentially quite a lot of people.
>
> Like I said before, I don't want to censor the penguin, not
> even the beer-drinking penguin. I just raised the question
> whether the "official linux kernel splash screen logo" (and
> only that) should be more neutral or not. Neutral in the sense
> that it is not offensive, funny, silly, stupid or confusing to
> a whole lot of people.
>
> Apparently, the consensus seems to be that the beer-drinking
> penguin boot logo is ok.
>
> Johan Myreen
> jem@iki.fi
>
>
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