145624 - Scrap the RED STAR!!!

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 114061

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Peter B. West]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020518
BuildID:    2002051807

Among sane people with even a passing acquaintance with the history of the
C20th, this infantile assertion of the symbol, under which the most vicious,
depraved and blood-thirsty tyrannies of that century conducted their oppression,
is deeply offensive.  I am a great believer in Open Source, and I detest this
symbolism.  I also believe that this single symbolic stupidity can do (and
probably has done) incalculable damage to the cause of OSS.  Get rid of it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Help->About Mozilla
2.
3.

Actual Results:  Desire to throw up.

Expected Results:  Sense of abiding joy at the success of this Open Source
initiative.

The Black Book of Communism: crimes, terror, repression. Courtios, Werth, Panné,
Packowski, Bartosek, Margolin.  Trans. Murphy & Kramer.  Harvard University
Press.  2000. ISBN 0-674-07608-7

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

come on...!

Comment 2

[timeless]

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Comment 3

[Peter B. West]

Comrades!  What?  No open debate?

This is a perfectly reasonable and perfectly serious enhancement request.  I
suggest that you let it stand, and give everyone a chance to THINK about the
cost of this imbecility.  I repeat, for the hard of hearing, that this damages
the credibility of both mozilla and the open source community.

Comment 4

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

over to UI:D

I think mozilla.org should adopt a "M" with a starscape behind it... :)

Comment 5

[timeless]

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Comment 6

[John Levon]

WONTFIX for reasons given in bug 43647 I would say.
I would also take the advice of the one of the wisest fictional
characters there is :

"They didn't know what the symbols and paradoxes meant. Instead of following
 the finger that points to the moon, they sat down and worshipped the finger
 itself. Instead of following the map, they thought it was the territory and
 tried to live in it. Instead of reading the menu they tried to eat it. Dig ?"
        - Miss Portinari

Peter, I imagine this has been done to death on the newsgroups :
try groups.google.com

Comment 7

[Peter B. West]

As long as the request is in bugzilla on public view, I have made my point.  The
responsibility for the damage will rest with others.

P.S. moz, I'm not the one who can't let go of the symbol.  I follow the pointing
finger to the mountains of bodies.  Dig it?

Comment 8

[John Levon]

*** Bug 147597 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[John Levon]

The star didn't kill anybody, it's not the star's fault.
Don't worship the finger.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114061 ***

Comment 10

[timeless]

vrfy dupe