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Re:Logos of GNU packages – world's worst logos? by yeukhon on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @06:44AM (#7304275)
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Wow. An innocent question turns into a downvote madness here. Oh boy. So much hate...

What is up with the bull logo? what's the significance of it?

- c-graph, the guy must love trumpet

- classpathx, doesn't even look like a logo

- clisp, this looks like some icon from the 1990s website that I used to see a lot as a kid :)

- dejagnu, oh i know this. this was the lovely MS Office Word's Word Art! They generated from that. I used to make powerpoint and documents with word art when I was a kid.

- emms, this looks quite normal to me

- gcc, I never knew gcc has a logo

- gdb, fish as logo, what's the reason behind it?

- guix, wow, that looks like Chrome logo

- httptunnel, that looks like a tunnel to hell

- gnowsys, This one is little cute

- parallel, with a massive logo but I don't see anything resembles parallel. I am definitely not mathematician or geometry expert

- pspp, looks awesome. dat pie chart though

- a few don't actually have a logo, but a text logo

and finally

- wb, this is the most impressive one; looks like someone just crop something off a photo using photoshop.

But then again, neither I nor most people are designer and expectations of how a logo supposed to look might be quite different back then.

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Re:Logos of GNU packages – world's worst logos? by michaelhoffman on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @06:46AM (#7304286)
It's not a bull, it's a gnu.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnu

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Re:Logos of GNU packages – world's worst logos? by yeukhon on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @06:55AM (#7304324)
Thanks. New vocabulary. Didn't know what gnu is/was. So are they actually in the same family as bull/cow?
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Re:Logos of GNU packages – world's worst logos? by diydsp on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @08:04AM (#7304649)
To find out, you could, for instance, read the second sentence of the wikipedia link the other poster posted for you and for which you thanked him.
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Re:Logos of GNU packages – world's worst logos? by alistairjcbrown on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @06:57AM (#7304334)
Flanders and Swann - The Gnu Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgo6s1lBbw
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Re:Logos of GNU packages – world's worst logos? by Corun on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @06:45AM (#7304281)
"Gnu" is another name for a wildebeast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildebeest
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Re:Logos of GNU packages – world's worst logos? by yen223 on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @06:44AM (#7304279)
It's a Gnu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildebeest
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Re:Logos of GNU packages – world's worst logos? by shultays on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @06:48AM (#7304294)
lines are parallel in parallel logo. it is a trick
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Re:Logos of GNU packages – world's worst logos? by yeukhon on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @06:53AM (#7304318)
I don't get it. Mind to explain further?
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Re:Logos of GNU packages – world's worst logos? by shultays on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @07:09AM (#7304403)
All grey horizontal lines are parallel while they don't look like it. Shifting black/white rectangles makes the lines look angled

Well, actually when image is huge, it is not obvious but if you scale page zoom down, you can notice the trick.

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Re:Logos of GNU packages – world's worst logos? by xentronium on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @07:20AM (#7304456)
It's an optical illusion. Lines are actually parallel, but seem not so.
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