UMN MapServer Users List <[email protected]> wrote on 11/28/2005 05:00:52 PM:
> Hmm... according to the images on the page you sent us, there is already a > Linux Platypus. It was a proposed logo. Tux the penguin got the job. His wife lays eggs too. When he can get home from his busy marketing job. > > I think that the playful platypus would be a bad choice. While the animal > is an endearing creature with its poison spurs and all, it LAYS EGGS and we > all know that the Mapserver developers certainly have not laid an egg with > Mapserver! The fact that it is warm blooded, has fur, swims like a fish and walks on land, has a bill like a bird and lays eggs is why it rocks. It is all things to all people, at least all people who try to classify creatures into groups. It is not stereotyping when you do it to animals. If there was a Familae Nerdicus, the platypus would be in it. > > Chip Taylor
