Exactly my thoughts. I followed the link from the article to their blog, where the logo has more context than their main site: http://blog.symbian.org/
It really doesn't look too bad or out of place there.
It reminds me of Dr. Seuss as well as another guy who used to do a learn to draw show on pbs when I was little, I think his name was Mark something. I really hope more people change from Web 2.0 style images to something more friendly or minimal looking like they decided to do.
It really doesn't look too bad or out of place there.