23Jun/07Off
Microsoft and the Ubuntu Logo
I saw this story on Digg, and I have to agree that the Microsoft Alumni Network logo look similar to Ubuntu Circle of Friends.
MSA Logo

Ubuntu Logo

Maybe they are Microsoft alumni cause they have moved to better things (and operating systems
).





June 23rd, 2007 - 20:21
Old News.
Besides, the MSA logo looks much better than the Ubuntu logo.
June 23rd, 2007 - 20:54
Looks like a blatant copyright infringement on microsofts part. SUE THE BAS*****!
June 23rd, 2007 - 21:19
“Besides, the MSA logo looks much better than the Ubuntu logo.”
I don’t know about that… that logo’s got duller colors than Ubuntu’s, and it looks like each person only has one arm grabbing onto the other’s armless shoulder.
June 23rd, 2007 - 22:36
also, MSA has been around and using a similar logo for about 5 years now…so did Ubuntu steal it from them? there is a Google cache somewhere that shows their original logo, which looks even closer to the Ubuntu logo
June 24th, 2007 - 03:43
Nothing new, It’s not as if Ubuntu invented the concept of their logo.
http://images.google.be/images?q=circle%20of%20friends
June 24th, 2007 - 04:16
I think they did lift the wrong arm up in their (ms) logo. The right arm was ususaly lifted by the fascists or the nazis.
June 24th, 2007 - 04:19
I think they did lift the wrong arm up in their (ms) logo. Usually, fascists do lift up their right arms.
June 24th, 2007 - 08:02
Hmmm, what did Ubuntu do when the RHUL SU complained that Ubuntu reused their idea for the logo ? Not a word… not a public reaction… And now we have a logo with Microsoft in it and they dare to complain ? I’m a Kubuntu user, but I really find that kind of reaction quite stupid…
http://www.su.rhul.ac.uk/Resources/graphics/title-bar.gif
This circle of 3 friends is often used as a logo for students’ union… that’s it
June 24th, 2007 - 10:16
http://spaceslogo.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1pewB9JxHjvFn1yxWqZBvnIw!105.entry
The msn spaces logo also was very similar.
June 24th, 2007 - 13:32
it looks like the darkest person in the logo is taking something from the next person pocket.
micro$oft
perhaps money???
June 24th, 2007 - 22:01
@dedopohoda: lol, you made my day!
June 24th, 2007 - 22:57
In the Microsoft logo the people don’t appear to all be equals, it seems like there’s a guy on the top and a guy on the bottom and as such is not so much a “circle of friends” but people climbing over each other, pushing others down in an effort to get to the top.