[Lazarus] Do we really need a PaintSwastika procedure?

[Marc Santhoff]

On Fr, 2016-01-08 at 08:16 -0500, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:43 AM, Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at web.de> wrote:
> 
> > People see something and are driven by feelings. I watched a case like
> > this already regarding FreeBSD. Some users insisted of changing the
> > deamon logo because they are afraif of the devil. Rather  ridiculous, it
> > actually was a cuddly toy or comic like figure, but in the end the logo
> > got changed.
> >
> 
> Was it changed? I can still see it on their official site.
> https://www.freebsd.org/
> 
> Btw, this is bsd thread (
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/219173.html)
> seems to be identical to PaintSwastika.

I did not follow it completely, bailed out early.

IIRC the startup screen having an ASCII-art was changed at least, even
better it was made switchable.

You're right, the old one is still or again visible, but it is the
mascot now. The official logo, seen above besides the FreeBSD-Name, is
only a sphere with two cone peaks.

It is used there, too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD

and the page has a paragraph about the logo, linking there:
http://www.osnews.com/story/9660/FreeBSD-logo-design-competition

So it were not only technical reasons reagarding graphics printing but
complaints motivated by religion that made it happen later on. Robert
Watson is one of the project leaders.

-- 
Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at web.de>