Fedora: A gift from the G(r)eek gods! -- WAS: New Fedora Logo : Fedora forum discussions

[Thijs Hulshof]

Hi,

It's funny that "Fedora" means "gift from a god", but I think we should not
associate a God with Fedora. I don't think very religious groups will
appreciate it.

P.S.: I'm the guy who posted that definition on FedoraForum yesterday, I
didn't expect that it would cause a new discussion on the
Fedora-marketing-list :-)

Regards,
Thijs


On 11/14/05, Stephen Krenzel <sgk284 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Considering the huge amount of controversy with evolution and ID recently
> in the states, we could have some fun calling Torvalds, Cox, Morton the
> intelligent designers. Either that or play off the fact that open source
> evolves. It could go either way as long as we keep it fun and in the spirit
> of a parody.
>
> I agree, associating this new meaning with the Fedora name could be gold.

Regards,
> Steve
>
> On 11/14/05, Bryan J. Smith < b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
> >
> > "Bryan J. Smith" < b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
> > > - A gift from the G(r)eek god Torvalda?
> > > Now line up the Geek gods, Torvalds, Cox, Morton, etc...
> > > Now talk about some great ideas for box art!!!
> > > ...
> > > "In a world where the majority worships only one god and
> > > does only his bidding, and all others are considered
> > > heretics, a band of outcasts all over the world works
> > > together ..."
> > >
> > > Man, this stuff is *GOLD*! You keep is "paraody-level" and
> > > it's not a problem!
> >
> > Seriously now, if you keep it "parody-level" you don't have
> > to worry about too many trademarks. We need serious
> > characterizations of Linus, Cox, Morton, etc... -- stuff that
> > is not a clear representation of them (for ownership/rights
> > issues), but still gets the point across -- that would make
> > some great box art!
> >
> > IN FACT, LET'S TAKE THIS ONE STEP FURTHER!
> >
> > You could call "the supposed one god" of software a fraud.
> > And one way Torvalda and others dispelled the notion of being
> > gods was by creating something and given mere mortals to use,
> > because he was no better than them!
> >
> > Com'mon man, this stuff is *GOLD*!
> >
> > > And most importantly, it provides a direct reference that
> > > is completely independent of Fedora as a hat. That's what
> > > those of us who offer commercial services, products, etc...
> > > built around Fedora _need_!
> >
> > This was my primary issue with Fedora(TM) prior, that visual
> > relationship. With this, it totally _removes_ the issue!
> >
> > Theodora, Fedora; Torvalds, Torvalda, etc...
> > Com'mon, get in the spirit of the comical aspects of this!
> > There is _so_much_ to build on!
> >
> >
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