Hi all,
I had a lot of unreaded mail, so sorry for the late response, but I like
a lot the M-xi-sigma accidental coincidence and I think that is "The
signal" for an appropiate logo, so I vote for it,
Cheers,
Offray Vladimir
El mar, 02-04-2002 a las 22:01, C Y escribió:
>
> --- "Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <vvzhy@mail.ru> wrote:
> >
> > I like your M+xi+sigma idea and drawing is quite nice.
> > But it seems to me that it is a bit verbose and complex
> > bo be a logo - too many overlapping curves.
> > I think that logo should be a bit simpler and laconic
> > to be easily recognizable from the first glance.
> > Just IMHO. No offense :-)
>
> No problem. My artistry is not my strong point - this was just to prod
> someone into doing a good one. For the record, I have to confess that
> the M+xi+sigma effect was an accident - I was just grabbing for good
> looking math symbols and had some dumb luck.
>
> > I also been thinking about name Maxima. It sounds
> > good by itself but so many things around are named
> > Maxima - cars, cigarettes ... Well, but I think it is too
> > late to change name.
>
> It would be tough - we would have to switch the sourceforge stuff,
> which I don't think is trivial. We might try calling it GNU Macsyma or
> something, but that brings up the whole trademark thing again.
>
> CY
>
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