Should Hackers Get Their Own Logo?

Ridgelift writes "Eric S. Raymond is proposing a new logo for Hackerdom. 'The Linux folks have their penguin and the BSDers their demon. Perl's got a camel, FSF fans have their gnu and OSI's got an open-source logo. What we haven't had, historically, is an emblem that represents the entire hacker community of which all these groups are parts. This is a proposal that we adopt one - the glider pattern from the Game of Life.'"

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[MavEtJu]

and the BSDers their demon.

That's a daemon for them.

The BSD Daemon [freebsd.org]
Daemon not demon [erenkrantz.com]

Have one?!

[novakane007]

I thought Hackers/Crackers were represented by "the hat" You can even buy one at thinkgeek [thinkgeek.com]

Re:I thought they already had one....

[KanshuShintai]

/\/0 j00 ll4/\/\4!!!! 17'$ "h4xX0|2z."

Re:hackers, indeed

[Anonymous Coward]

No, the alt tag is a good common practice when used correctly. It should be used for alternate text when the user is unable or unwilling to view images. In this case, it would be something like "hacker logo." Title is used to give an image a mouseover title (or however your browser renders it) to provide more information on the image.

Re:"Hacker" is now a shibboleth

[jdfox]

If they could pronounce "Shibboleth" properly, they were in. If they couldn't, they were sent on their way.

Um... actually they were dragged away and killed, as usually happens in Bible stories: Judges 12:4-6 [virginia.edu]

Re:Like the totally 1337 peace sign? All your base

[G27 Radio]

Are we talking about the "peace sign"?

No, this [google.com]. [image search]

Re:I thought they already had one....

[dtolton]

Interestingly he's not referring to Hackers as the term is commonly applied.

He is referring to the original sense of Hacker.

Read his articles:
How to be a Hacker
A brief history of hackerdom.

I think the logo is a great idea. Yes a lot of people who don't deserve to have the logo will display it, but then that won't change anything from how it is today.

Re:Depends how you look at it; also, tiling?

[Anonymous Coward]

xlock -inroot -mode life

Re:Confusion

[dotwaffle]

A macker is someone from the Middlesborough area of the UK. Technically Mackem, but it gets shortened a lot.