WTF is with the mozilla logo? I use linux, i've used it for 3-4 years now, and I1 know NS 4.7 is not the greatest browser, now that mozilla is moving towards 1, i want to install it, but i really cant stand having a red star on my desktop or on anything i own for that matter.
Why on earth did the developers choose such a blatantly political (and many cases offensive) symbol? is their intention to offend or insult? millions of people have been killed in the name of that symbol, even today thousands others are brutally slaughtered and here we see a group for some strange reason embracing this. There are places where the presence of a red star makes you a pariah, do you not want these people to use mozilla? for no falut of their own.. Is mozilla communist or are the developers? or are they just sick individuals who think it is funny that people have died? you should at least have the decency to have version without the political images. Yes, i know that the red star is not just a symbol of communism, but that is not an excuse, the gold/yellow bordered red star is a blatant communist image.. second only to the hammer and sickle. What are we goging to see next? black swastikas on white and red? is this going to be justified as being a swmbol of other cultures? for the record the nazi swastika is a mirror image of its asian counter part and is also tilted on an edge.. thus it is kinda easy to distinguish a nazi swastika from others. A red star wouldn't be see as communist if it wasnt made in that style, if anyone has even seen a few communist images or flags for that matter, they know what style/colors are being used here. It becasue of extreme people like these that linux in general is not taken as seriously as it shoudl be and that is very sad. I was not shocked when i first saw the logo but i thought it was a joke.. along with those "for the good of the source" banners.. i've come to expect this from the the linux community.. and its amusing.. but this is ridiculous. ( i know mozilla!=linux but that is the primary browser.. everyone else might as well use IE) for the record, i dont use mozilla or netscape anymore, i use opera now, its free, fast, very small and light weight and more powerful and is everything mozilla should have been but couldn't. Let that red star be a warning label to all, mozilla does strive to be bloated, buggy, ugly and inefficient. I call for others like me offended by these images, to simply boycott mozilla, i dont think we can change the mind set of the radicals and we might as well let them play with thier star by themselves. while most other browsers depend on mozilla, there are other free browsers for linux and other unicies and i discovered Opera is to be good alternative (www.opera.com) ...
