On Saturday 30 October 2004 08:00 pm, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> I wrote:
> > That's what you get when a comittee decides on expressive art under the
> > governance of overzealous political correctness.
>
> Ah yes, another thing of course.
> I see that the flag is dark orange, ok, let's name it a shade of red.
> And distinctly pointing the _left_.
> Do you intend to express that society ought to storm to the left under
> the red banner?
> Surely a lot of people would object to that.  So, not only have you
> called upon you the holy wrath of the religious fundamentalists with
> that dreadful rendering of Satan himself, now you have the entire
> conservative establishment against you with your thinly veiled challenge
> for international communist uprisal.  Of course, most people always
> suspected that open source is just a communist ploy.
>
> I therefore recommend that the logo be modified as follows:
>
>   * Change the color of the flag to an unproblematic shade of gray. But
> make it neither too light nor too dark a shade, in order not to
> incite racial hatred.
>
>   * Make the flag fly exactly centered, so as not to indicate any
> political affiliation.  (Might be a bit tricky but that's the deal with
> political correctness.)
>
>   * Despite your efforts of centering it, don't make the flag hang like
> a floppy wet towel, lest you be accused of demoralizing patriotism, and
> working for the terrorists.
>
>   * Make the flag pole a lot shorter.  Maybe replace it with something
> different.  This is nothing but a sexist phallus symbol.
>
>   * Replace the historically burdened (Satan logo software, etc.)
> "NetBSD" name by the less problematic "NetFoo".
>
>   * Finally replace "NetFoo" by "AlFoo", to pay credit to Al Gore, the
> man who invented the Internet.

*Spitz beer all over monitor and keyboard*

Hahahaha

-- 
Best regards,
Chris

If it would be cheaper to repair the old one, the
company will insist on the latest model.