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| From | Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> |
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Red Hat learns people associate its logo with mistrust |
| Date | 13 May 2019 07:59:14 GMT |
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On Sun, 12 May 2019 21:27:07 -0400, RS Wood wrote: > On 2019-05-12, Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> wrote: >> with <1p8kqf-g9o.ln1@rasp.therandymon.com> RS Wood wrote: >> >>> Red Hat's chief marketing officer discovered their logo was rendering >>> poorly in digital formats (especially on small devices like >>> smartphones). But then they discovered even bigger problems in surveys >>> (including with potential customers) about what feelings the logo >>> evoked: Sinister. Secretive. Evil. Sneaky. These respondents might >>> not have known anything about Red Hat, but they did believe that man >>> lurking in the shadows didn't immediately inspire their trust. >> >> Huh? Somehow it wasn't apparent before IBM set up shop in there. Go >> figure. >> >> *CUT* > > All the best logos are troublesome. FreeBSD's Beasty Daemon character > was cast as "satanic" of course, by people completely missing the Unix > reference. They replaced him with a generic looking red globe with > points which in my opinion, isn't as good. The first thing I do on a new install is change the boot logo back to Beastie. For those who haven't seen it, this is amusing (unless you're a Texan, perhaps): https://rmitz.org/freebsd.daemon.html -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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Red Hat learns people associate its logo with mistrust RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-05-11 21:16 -0400
Re: Red Hat learns people associate its logo with mistrust Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> - 2019-05-12 18:01 +0300
Re: Red Hat learns people associate its logo with mistrust RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-05-12 21:27 -0400
Re: Red Hat learns people associate its logo with mistrust The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2019-05-12 23:03 -0700
Re: Red Hat learns people associate its logo with mistrust Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-05-13 11:24 +0000
Re: Red Hat learns people associate its logo with mistrust Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-05-13 07:59 +0000
Re: Red Hat learns people associate its logo with mistrust Steve555 <Steve555@bogus.nodomain.nowhere.invalid> - 2019-06-15 20:11 +0000
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