I'm sure this doesn't make it any better (or maybe it does?!), but it's a parody of the Luis Vuitton handbag print: http://tinyurl.com/5tcm8l
Can we just treat it as one deliciously big chunk of irony? We all know the Apple motto should be "What Copy/Paste?" http://tinyurl.com/63cr2f --Dean On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Kevin Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not willing to change the background myself only because it seems > really low on my conference-prep priority list. I'm open to changing > it if someone else does the lion's share of the work and it works with > the design we have going. Sorry to be inflexible, there's just a ton > to do. > > Starting another thread re: #2. Another pet peeve of mine. > > Kevin > > > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Christina Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 1) Fred: Thanks for pulling up that Wikipedia article! Yeah, it would be >> cool to reappropriate the St. John's Cross for our purposes, but I'm kind of >> questioning if this is going to do it. In this context, it is definitely >> going to be read as the Apple command icon, not anything else. >> >> 2) Kevin: I feel you on where you're coming from with this. As a no-time Mac >> user and full-time Ubuntu-on-a-PC user, I guess it threw me off because I'm >> so used to my ctrl key. If you had used "ctrl", it probably 1) wouldn't have >> looked as cool and 2) would have been similarly alarming to Mac users. BUT, >> that said...I'm pretty concerned with how successful at "freewashing" Apple >> is as a corporation. Maybe I'm totally off the mark, but my sense is that >> Mac has been promoting its products as hip & cool and, somehow, ethically >> better than Windows. A lot of free software supporters scoff at using >> Windows but are totally comfortable running OS X, and that worries me >> (because clearly Ubuntu ftw). >> >> SO: my proposed alternatives: >> * Getting rid of the Squiggle and just having C X V tiled? It might take >> people a while to 'get it', but the design might look more coherent anyway. >> * Using the cut/copy/paste icons that I love oh so much at the bottom of the >> page? (Con: Are those too associated with Office or some such thing? In that >> case, I'm more up for liberating those than the St. John's Cross thing...) >> >> 3) Kevin again: It's true, we're way too uncontrollably hip for our own >> good. >> >> <3 >> Christina >> (Sorry if this email made no sense, I blame it on altitude & natural gas >> production-related fumes) >> >> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Kevin Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> As a part-time Mac user and full-time free software supporter, I made >>> that graphic to mean "cut-copy-paste". I thought of the implications >>> on using an icon closely associated with Apple but couldn't think of a >>> similar generic one. >>> >>> While we can always better promote freedom, I am afraid we're going to >>> have trouble being less hip. >>> >>> Kevin >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> > On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Matt Lee wrote: >>> > >>> >> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Christina Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >> wrote: >>> >>> Question: Why is the Mac command button thing being used as an icon? >>> >>> Was it purely an aesthetic choice? 'Cause, in case you forget, Macs >>> >>> are >>> >>> kiiind of proprietary all over the place. >>> >> >>> >> What she said. >>> > >>> > It's a bit late, since I'm on the conf08 list too and could have spoken >>> > up >>> > there too (mea culpa), but I agree with Matt's and Christina's feelings >>> > here. >>> > >>> > If there's any hope of making the conference less "hip" and >>> > Mac-promoting, >>> > and instead more clear that it promotes freedom, I'd appreciate that! >>> > >>> > -- Asheesh. >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of >>> > genius. >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Discuss mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> )_)_)_)_)_)_ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >> > > > > -- > )_)_)_)_)_)_ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
