There DOES exist, however, an animal called a Gnu--I always thought GNU/Hurd was actually a pun on that idea: so why not do the simple task and use a gnu head for the icon? Or mabye a word-picture of a gnu side view with "debian" spelled out in the fur? Or better, a simple herd of gnus. Why do we gotta go as far afield as an orca when we already have a spokesanimal built in?
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > First Andreas Tille writes: > > > Once more: let us delay the painting work. Its time for thinking > > first. If we could cope with this (or any better idea) then we > > have one aim -- as well as we have one aim in developing the > > operating system. > > Next he says: > > > to support my idea of "Orca for Debian" I would like to point to > > some very nice pictures which can be found under > > So pretty pictures are important after all? You want to convince people > to use an orca logo with pretty pictures? > > I find the idea of of using some animal bad, unless it appears that > there actually exist `debians'. Debian is software, so the logo should > reflect that. The important things about the software are that is is > free, and that it is shared among people. In 10 minutes I could come > up with two logo designs reflecting this. Please give me a few days to > work this out. What debian needs is a logo, not a discussion about an > idea for a subject of a logo. > > As it was formulated, the logo contest is about an idea anyway. Your > idea would be `use an orca' with some reasons. That's fine. Submit > it, and let others submit their ideas. > > Eric Meijer > > -- > E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 > Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 > Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
