As a graphic designer I agree, and wrote on this before: http://i.liketightpants.net/and/my-favourite-logo-ever-is-for-gnu-pascal http://i.liketightpants.net/a

As a graphic designer I agree, and wrote on this before: http://i.liketightpants.net/and/my-favourite-logo-ever-is-for-gnu-pascal http://i.liketightpants.net/and/my-favourite-logo-ever-is-fo... > I heart the complete absence of symbolism. And the departure from traditional corporate marketing is all the more exciting because it rhymes with the product itself. GNU Pascal is open source software: it is changeable and redistributable at will. As such it is built more on the values of the academic world than on the traditional corporate ethos. And while visual identities for open source software tend to be pale imitations of corporate aesthetics, GNU Pascal is one clue of how such software could find a style of its own.