I had always assumed that it was a whale because other operating systems are large and bloated and a whale would be irony.
R ________________________________ From: Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> Sent: Sunday, 7 February 2021 11:12 PM To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] What is the FreeDOS fish? In another thread, Bryan asked: On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 10:11 PM Bryan Kilgallin <kilgal...@iinet.net.au<mailto:kilgal...@iinet.net.au>> wrote: [..] By the way, what is the origin/meaning of the obese fish logo? The FreeDOS fish mascot is named Blinky. The short story behind this is I wanted to have a mascot for FreeDOS. I just thought "GNU has a gnu, BSD has the daemon, Linux has the penguin .. FreeDOS should have a mascot too." I wasn't sure what mascot to choose. I liked the idea of a seal, and imagined the Linux penguin and the FreeDOS seal hanging out together. I also really liked lemurs, so I had the idea that the FreeDOS mascot could be a lemur. At the time, people contributed images and web buttons and all kinds of things for the FreeDOS website. People also contributed new logo ideas. One developer contributed a kind of FreeDOS mascot with hands and feet. (If you have seen the original "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" cartoony mascot of the smiling green ball - the mascot kind of looked like that.) I thought that blue ball mascot was neat. Instead, we chose a fish. A developer named Mike Green contributed a FreeDOS logo that used a "fish outline" and said that the fish represented freedom. I put that logo in the "contrib" directory on the website with all the other contributed stuff. A while later, Bas Snabilie saw that contributed fish logo, and contributed his own fish - a cartoony FreeDOS fish mascot. I really liked Bas's fish, and I put it on the website. We later dubbed him "Blinky" because of his one big googly eye. Blinky doesn't have gills, but he really is a fish.
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