DataPortability: Logo Design Contest Winner!
Written on April 23, 2008 – 5:31 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten,
DataPortability was founded in November of 2007 to promote the idea that individuals should have control over their data by determing who can use it and how it can be used. This includes access to data that is under the control of another entity.
After Red Hat sent a Cease and Desist claiming that the DataPortability logo was too similar (Identical, in their words) to the Fedora Logo the DataPortability Project needed a new design. So they asked their community to come up with designs and vote on them. They received over 400 designs and thousands of votes.
This is the new logo on the left, the old logo in the middle and the Fedora logo on the right:
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