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
MSA Logo

Ubuntu Logo
Ubuntu Logo

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

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Posted on June 23, 2007 at 7:44 pm by Mike · Permalink
In: Ubuntu Linux

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  1. Written by anonymous
    on June 23, 2007 at 8:21 pm
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    Old News.

    Besides, the MSA logo looks much better than the Ubuntu logo.

  2. Written by Roger Hunt
    on June 23, 2007 at 8:54 pm
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    Looks like a blatant copyright infringement on microsofts part. SUE THE BAS*****!

  3. Written by Baka Bomber
    on June 23, 2007 at 9:19 pm
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    “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.

  4. Written by nixternal
    on June 23, 2007 at 10:36 pm
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    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

  5. Written by E adesso chi è che copia? « Appunti di Ubuntu
    on June 24, 2007 at 1:35 am
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    [...] [Fonte: Mike’s Planet] [...]

  6. Written by Serge van Ginderacht
    on June 24, 2007 at 3:43 am
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    Nothing new, It’s not as if Ubuntu invented the concept of their logo.
    http://images.google.be/images?q=circle%20of%20friends

  7. Written by i don't like the redmond's
    on June 24, 2007 at 4:16 am
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    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.
    ;-)

  8. Written by nobody special
    on June 24, 2007 at 4:19 am
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    I think they did lift the wrong arm up in their (ms) logo. Usually, fascists do lift up their right arms.

    ;-)

  9. Written by Cypher
    on June 24, 2007 at 8:02 am
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    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

  10. Written by Eric Klemm
    on June 24, 2007 at 10:16 am
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    http://spaceslogo.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1pewB9JxHjvFn1yxWqZBvnIw!105.entry
    The msn spaces logo also was very similar.

  11. Written by dedopohoda
    on June 24, 2007 at 1:32 pm
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    it looks like the darkest person in the logo is taking something from the next person pocket.
    perhaps money??? :) micro$oft

  12. Written by Dread Knight
    on June 24, 2007 at 10:01 pm
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    @dedopohoda: lol, you made my day! :D

  13. Written by Paul
    on June 24, 2007 at 10:57 pm
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    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.

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    on June 28, 2007 at 10:04 pm
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