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Re: Proposal: That the Hippo becomes the official mascot of Cygwin
- From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
- To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:26:46 -0700
- Subject: Re: Proposal: That the Hippo becomes the official mascot of Cygwin
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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. How do you have a mean-looking hippo
that's also attractive? OpenSSH seems to strike a similar balance with
their puffer fish mascot, but then, the connection between security and
puffer fishes is obvious.