Proposal: That the Hippo becomes the official mascot of Cygwin
Dave Korn
dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Fri Feb 13 20:51:00 GMT 2009
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
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