More symbols...
In response to Aaron's post...
cannon: A large tubular firearm designed to fire a heavy projectile over a long distance.
Canonical: An innovative company designed to "realize the potential of free software". The Canonical logo may look like a cannon, but any such resemblance is merely coincidental... or is it?
cannon: A large tubular firearm designed to fire a heavy projectile over a long distance.
Canonical: An innovative company designed to "realize the potential of free software". The Canonical logo may look like a cannon, but any such resemblance is merely coincidental... or is it?
My repsonse, which of course goes in to word definitions, and the like.
ReplyDeletecanon: a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy; "the neoclassical canon"; "canons of polite society"
ReplyDeleteYou are both wrong. The logo comes from this:
ReplyDeletehttp://quarkblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/ubuntu.jpg
Cannon, n: An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
ReplyDeleteDevil's dictionary, Ambrose Bierce :-)
Better than ubuntu logo. I will replace the gnome menu icon with canonical's logo. It's like a commutator in electromotors.
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