[phryk]

Finally somebody other than me said it.

Most people will just shrug it off as "The logo is ugly, so what?". But please consider this:

The thing is not that the logos are ugly; The thing is that GNU is spectacularly bad at (graphic) design. Design might not be important for gcc, but if a project has no one with design expertise, their [G]UIs will (and do) suck. You can see this for instance with just about any open source crypto application ever.

[belorn]

If you think that gnu is for some reason spectacularly bad, you have simply not viewed enough other logos.

I just took a random look at openbsd gallery of logos, and openbse logo popped right up (http://www.openbsd.org/art/OpenBSE_2.jpg). Barely work safe.