Why the 'communist' theme?

Jimmy_C · Post by **Jimmy_C** » March 14th, 2003, 7:27 am

Hey all, I've noticed that - while the name 'Mozilla' comes from the old Japanese monster (and Mosaic browser) - the Mozilla Organization tends to use "Communist" style lettering and script. For instance, Gecko (the lizard in the logo) is now often red-colored and/or framed in a red star. That star is also often used as a mini-logo for Mozilla too (see the blimp in the forum for an example). Furthermore, the "revolution" font used for the logo seems to suggest the communist revoltion of so-long-ago. I wonder why about fasination with Soviets. Is this an "in-joke" of the Mozilla developers? Are they all socialists? (Not that I have anything personally against socialists.)

jcraig · Post by **jcraig** » March 14th, 2003, 7:39 am

Oh please, not this again!

spark · Post by **spark** » March 14th, 2003, 7:43 am

Jimmy_C, please use the search facility before posting, this subject is getting very boring now.

spiz · Post by **spiz** » March 14th, 2003, 8:23 am

Actually, since the ultimate idea of open source is equialty, then you could say that all the open source movement is a communist movement (NOT Lenninist or Maoist communism, but that defined by Karl Marx).

Post by **bdeonline** » March 14th, 2003, 8:39 am

It seems it is what it is, and I don't think mozilla.org will ever change it.
It looks preaty good I am not sure if it was first thought to be this way, but anyhow it looks good.

Maybe its time some communist took over the other communist (Microsoft). :mrgreen:

Communism is a good idea just implamented wrong by power hungry people, I gess you can call them dictators.

bim · Post by **bim** » March 14th, 2003, 10:32 am

If everything has been said about the communism, can we start discussing what open source soft has with animals, it's just that I notice there's a lizard, a penguin, two unidentifiable birds at OpenOffice,...

AJUK · Post by **AJUK** » March 14th, 2003, 10:54 am

I hate communists

johann_p · Post by **johann_p** » March 14th, 2003, 11:13 am

please, do not waste everybody's time with this. If you are dumb enough to feel offended by "communist Mozilla" do me the favor, pick up your favorite capitalist browser and GO AWAY.

simifilm · Post by **simifilm** » March 14th, 2003, 11:21 am

Mozilla tries to poison our precious bodily fluids!

wget · Post by **wget** » March 14th, 2003, 2:25 pm

Yes, Jimmy, they are all a bunch of pinko commies. They probably eat french fries too!!1!

willll · Post by **willll** » March 14th, 2003, 3:00 pm

simifilm wrote:Mozilla tries to poison our precious bodily fluids!

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

Jimmy_C · Post by **Jimmy_C** » March 14th, 2003, 3:44 pm

Everyone, I'm sorry for posting this redundant thread. I wasn't aware that this has been discussed before, and I don't want to start a flame-war. I have nothing against the logos (in fact, I kinda like them, and I think they're funny), but I just realized the theme. Oh well...

FOR THE REVOLUTION!!! (just kidding :-)

craigbass76 · Post by **craigbass76** » March 17th, 2003, 5:18 am

Sort of unrelated blurb here, but I'm not really concerned with the political alignment of mozilla's developers. It works, I don't think I'm imagining that it's faster than IE, and that's the name of that tune.

The birds on openoffice's logo are seagulls I think; they could also be osprey or albatross, but I think they're gulls. Someone on their development team must live near an ocean.

Post by **djst** » March 17th, 2003, 10:02 am

craigbass76 wrote:The birds on openoffice's logo are seagulls I think; they could also be osprey or albatross, but I think they're gulls. Someone on their development team must live near an ocean.

Not necessarily. They may have just seen a seagull in a movie or on the internet.

jaredjt · Post by **jaredjt** » March 17th, 2003, 2:47 pm

mozilla related to communism, not that bad a thing. we relate communism to bad things because of how it looked and was implemented. read socialist writings, and anything by karl marx. give you some insight into the whole idealism

Why the 'communist' theme?

Why the 'communist' theme?

oh no, not this stupidity again

Sorry...

birds

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