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Re: New GCC logotype development.
Florian Weimer wrote:
GCC is not just a marketing effort. It's also important that the GCC
developer community can identify themselves with the logo.
Yes, that's certainly right, and in fact that is an important function
of any logo (to kind of form a banner for the community :-) That's true
with a company logo also, so you are quite right, this is a general
important feature of a logo.
I'd rather see something which gives an impression of foundation, of a
source of power. Maybe the hooves of a galloping gnu (if gnus ever
gallop, I don't know 8-).
Well it really does not matter if they do or don't. A logo is not a
photograph or a representation of a reality. WHo cares what a GNU
really does or looks like, what we want is not something realistic,
but something stylized that appeals (I actually like the current logo
on this business