Re: Vote: PHP/QAT Logo

On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote: > At 10:49 23/08/00 -0600, Zak Greant wrote: > >At 07:33 PM 8/23/00 +0300, Andi Gutmans wrote: > >>At 10:33 23/08/00 -0600, Zak Greant wrote: > >>>At 07:21 PM 8/23/00 +0300, Andi Gutmans wrote: > >>>>I don't like the Fu logo because it kind of reminds me of a swastika. > >>>>The first one is cute but I'm not very sure about any of them, except > >>>>for the fu one. > >>> > >>>Ah... errr... well, lets write that one off. > >> > >>Thanks a lot! > >>Sorry about that. > > > >I am glad that you mentioned your objection! I would have been truly > >dismayed to have found out at a later date that you associated a logo that > >I designed with cruelty, fascism, genocide and terror. > > > >Besides, designing logos is always tricky - especially when dealing with > >an international audience. I am embarrassed not to have seen the > >relationship between the two symbols (especially when the fu| was set on a > >red field). > > Don't worry about it. There are lots of symbols which look similar but > stand for completely different unrelated things. Even the swastika itself had been used for thousands of years before the evil guys used it.. But I agree, similar looking symbols should not be on a PHP-related logo. - Sascha