[Ubuntu-be] When a logo is difficult to come up with

[Serge van Ginderachter]

On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 23:28 +0200, philippe wrote:
> Le samedi 23 juin 2007 à 22:16 +0200, Kevin Van Wilder a écrit :
> > The Microsoft Alumni network has a very interesting logo. Do check
> > this
> > out and  tell me if you notice something odd: http://msanet.org/ 
> incredible.
> have they  stolen the idea of the logo (with a kind of triskell
> inside) AND the colours?

You might want to check facts befor ejumoing to conclusions.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://msanet.org/
http://web.archive.org/web/20050731012333/http://www.msanet.org/
http://web.archive.org/web/20050830093005/www.msanet.org/images/msa_logo.gif

So it's not that recent. Of course Ubuntu was longer around, 

http://web.archive.org/web/20041011235545/www.ubuntulinux.org/site_icon.gif

But I'm not sure it was that famous you could determine who stole from
who. To be honest, I doubt the one knew about the other.

Playing the devil's advocate, but better that, than FUD the other way
around ;-)




        Serge

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