Tucows already has a Platypus product (albeit not mapping related). http://resellers.tucows.com/backoffice/
Tim On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:26:40PM -0500, Rick Levine wrote: > 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
