From: spj@ukelele.GCR.COM (Simon Patrick Janes) Subject: Re: Why Linux should remain Linux and seagulls should not be used. Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 18:12:45 GMT
mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
>In article <C5GFxB.D50@ukelele.GCR.COM>, spj@ukelele.GCR.COM (Simon Patrick Janes) writes:
>> I don't like the seagull idea however. Seagulls are too common I think...
>> I don't know... it just makes me think what America would have been like
>> if the national bird was the turkey like it almost became. I would rather
>> have a platypus than a seagull.
>Folks,
>Michael K. Johnson and I have decided to use the Linux seagull logo on the
>title page of the Linux Documentation Project manuals as well as other
>works. We're working right now on integrating the logo with the current
>linuxdoc.sty LaTeX style format used by the LDP.
Ok, this is OK by me, I just didn't want the "sea-gull" to be *the* Linux
Logo, but the sea-gull as the Linux Doc. Proj. logo is very good. (I'm
thinking of the BSD Devil-with-sneakers book and comparing it with the
sea-gull.)
>While this by no means makes it "official", it's about as official as you
>can get in the Linux community. The seagull represents many things about
>Linux: its size (Linux is a small UNIX), freedom, internationalization (where
>in the world aren't seagulls found?), flexibility, and, well... flight (from
>the world of DOS). If any animal or design represents Linux it is the seagull.
>Although I'm probably not interested in receiving tons of email trying to
>persuade me out of this decision, if you design a good-looking Linux logo
>depicting some other animal (or no animal at all?) feel free to send it
>along. PostScript is fine, but MetaFont source would be better. The seagull
>has so far been the most appropriate available design, and we really liked
>it. A platypus? Okay, if the mammal body represents System V and the duckbill
>represents BSD, then you may have something there... :)
I could never design a good logo. If nothing better comes up, the sea-gull
will probably end up being it. (Man, but they're so common.. ;)
>Cheers,
>mdw
>--
>Matt Welsh, mdw@tc.cornell.edu
>"I met a girl named Sandoz..."
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