Ask HN: VLC Christmas hat icon, good or bad?
I just noticed that the VLC player icon that it has started wearing the Santa hat. While I find this really cute, but this is the first instance (that I know of) when an Open Source project has declared itself of any religion explicitly (I say this because I did not see any change in the icon for jew, hindu or islamic festivals). What would be your take on this? Will this be good or bad for the project. An open source project is supposed to transcend any type of boundaries, be it religious, sex, cast or even the type of hardware that you use.
Disclaimer: I am not the kind of guy which howls and cries over religious issues (I like to see religion as a way to calm and sooth myself, nothing else), but their are people who are very sensitive about it.