On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Paul van Helden wrote:
On 2010/02/05 01:20 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
It seems a significant portion of open source projects pick some animal,
almost as some type of "mascot", and that is cool
How can something that everybody is doing be cool!??!
Well, I like it. Animals are not common as mascots for commercial software
and to me, personally, shows that you're dealing with a community (warm,
friendly) instead of a corporate entity (cold, greedy). I don't know if it
all started with the Gnu or Tux and everyone else just jumped onto the idea,
but it clearly resonates with the open source culture on some level. Have a
look at this huge collection of open source mascots: http://chl.be/mascots/
Just because something is common for some culture doesn't make it un-cool. I
think trying to be different just for the sake of being different is un-cool.
Nobody says you have to go and copy someone (like the Delphi pillar, etc, has
been copied in the Lazarus splash...)
It is a real pity about Jack Wolfskin, but I'd still go for the paw and
refrain from making T-Shirts with it (or at least have the T-Shirts made by
someone who cannot be sued :-) ). A big cat's paw print is the ultimate
emblem of stealth and speed IMHO, since you never see the bugger ;-)
If you do see it up close, it may well be the last thing you'll ever see :)
Translated to Lazarus it means you'll never use something else again ;-)
Michael.
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