From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
To: The Vulgar and Unprofessionally-Prepared Cygwin-Talk List
<cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Proposal: That the Hippo becomes the official mascot of Cygwin
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4995DF70.3060209@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49959F46.1020807@etr-usa.com>
Warren Young wrote:
> zzapper wrote:
>> I guess I'm not the first to suggest this, but Perl has got the Camel,
>> GNU's got the .. drat I can't remember. Might help
>> popularise/publicise Cygwin
>
> I think we're just waiting on someone to come up with a graphic that
> either wins widespread acceptance, or favor from the Co-Maintainers.
>
> It's a difficult challenge. The reason for picking hippos is that
> they're mean, because WJM here.
'sfunny, I thought it was because they were big and lumbering with a huge
unwieldy back-end .... ;-)
> How do you have a mean-looking hippo that's also attractive?
Put lipstick on it?
> OpenSSH seems to strike a similar balance with
> their puffer fish mascot, but then, the connection between security and
> puffer fishes is obvious.
SSH, like Fugu, is a welcome and tasty treat, but, also like Fugu, there are
probably a couple of seriously poisonous bits somewhere deep down there in the
innards?
cheers,
DaveK
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-13 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-13 14:47 zzapper
2009-02-13 16:27 ` Warren Young
2009-02-13 20:51 ` Dave Korn [this message]
2009-02-14 4:01 ` Christopher Faylor
2009-02-14 5:13 ` Dave Korn
2009-02-13 20:53 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2009-02-13 21:08 ` Dave Korn
2009-02-17 14:59 ` zzapper
2009-02-19 18:28 ` Dave Woodfall
2009-02-28 4:41 ` Joe Smith
2009-02-28 9:20 ` Dave Korn
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