On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Re: National Linux logos":
> > on). Can't people be a little original and choose a different animal? (or
> > a human being, for change).
>
> I chose a different animal (a childish yellow dog) for ivrix.org.il :)
> Linus pre-1.0 versions used to have a different logo, if I remember correctly-
> a shark (look at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~gedau/shark.gif).
>
OK. But this is rather a minority. I remember seeing a Linus distro (I
believe it was Spiro Linux) whose mascot was a fox. But most others use
Tux like the plague.
> Anyway, human as logos/icons are out of the questions for religious Jews
> or Muslims, and they probably look a bit weird to anybody. What humans should
> we have on logos? Linus Torvalds? Alan Cox? Richard Stallman? These logos
> are bound to be scary :)
>
No. I meant cartoon-like humans. (or humans faces, or parts of them, etc.)
Do you seriously mean that a human as a commercial icon will be frowned
upon by religious Jews and Muslims? Religion is weird, I'd tell you that.
> > This reminds me that one of my sisters completely dislikes animals. All
> > animals. It's a common paradigm that every person likes either dogs or
> > cats, and some like both, but she hates them, as well as any other species
> > out there.
>
> Well, the common paradigm, as you call it, is that you should like everything
> and everybody except when you have a very good reason to dislike it.
I'm not sure I agree with you. I don't like the person John Smith who
lives in the most obscure street somewhere in the USA, simply because I do
not know him. When we meet, I'll be polite and try to be friendly to him,
but for the while I don't have any feelings towards him.
> I can
> see why someone would dislike snakes, or even big scary dogs. I can see how
> someone can have a favorite animal, and others are less-favorite. But how do
> you get to *hate* all animals? Even fluffy chinchillas (call me if you want
> to see one ;))? Even small dogs like Poodles?
I personally hate poodles. I'm a cat person actually, but I think I prefer
either big dogs who have a good temper, or small dogs that looks less
bizarre than poodles.
> Sheep? Squirrels? Horses?
>
I don't know. She said she does not like animals. But I think she is fond
of cartoons featuring them and stuff like that.
Oh and I'm not very fond of Horses either. I am particularily fond of
hyraxes, ibexes, weasels, gibbons, some parrots and most other birds,
bears (as long as they don't attack me), and perhaps others I forgot. And
like I said, I like cats. The Large Cats are very elegant but they scare
me a bit.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
>
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