[free-sklyarov] boycottadobe.com logo

[proclus at iname.com]

I think you may indeed be reading too much into it.  As I read it, the
banner is an attempt to undermine the Adobe brand and rightly associate
the actions of the Kompany with the abuses of Stalinism.  I
wholeheartedly approve, and I think that we should definitely continue
with the current banner.  It is a little like the Microsoft icon at
Slashdot, Bill Gates as the Borg commander; very funny and very
effective.

Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/


On 20 Jul, mike castleman wrote:
> I just wanted to comment on the modified Adobe logo on the
> boycottadobe.com website. I'm not clear what the artist is trying to
> communicate by inserting the Communist hammer/sickle in the Adobe logo. It
> seems that Adobe suffers from an excess of Capitalism and all its inherent
> evils rather than an excess of Communism. And, while I'm not myself a
> Communist, I'd have trouble feeling a part of any movement (and we ARE
> building a movement, right here on this list) that participates in the
> kind of red-baiting implied by equating Communism with all things evil. I
> further note that Mr. Sklyarov is from Russia, a part of the world which
> is closely associated with Communism.
> 
> I apologize if I'm reading too much into it, but it seems to me we have to
> be careful about symbolism and what kind of message we're sending.
> 

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