Haskell logo fail

This is just one of those coincidences you find in logo and identity design, especially when you’re building a logo out of simple shapes.

Not sure what's being suggested here. Is the implication that the logo is a ripoff or that the logo wasn't properly vetted against existing IDs?

Out of a bajillion logos, there is one that looks similar to the new haskell logo. WOW.

This logo was chosen by a vote of the community. Here are the other choices.

http://www.haskell.org/logos/poll.html

Multiple people came up with this same design independently, because its meaningful: a combination of a lambda and the bind operator, >>=, two of the most fundamental operators in Haskell.

Anyway this was months ago. And if you want to point a fail-finger, point it at the guy who chose >>= for the bind operator. "LOL yer operater looks like the train logo!" (And I'm being facetious. That operator is awesome.)

I kinda like it. Its nonglossy and simple, opposite to most amatuer stuff these days. But i like the amtrack one more which is kinda similar in shape but tries to visullay communicate something completly different - so whats the point of comparing these two?! They are not very much alike if you go into the details.

For all you comp-vision folks: provide a service where you can do an image-matching search on a proposed logo, and get a list of similar logos.

I don't see the problem. It doesn't use the same colours and it isn't that similar. And the Amtrak logo is only known to Americans anyway.

still a really cool logo.