--- On Sun, 3/1/10, chromatic <chroma...@wgz.org> wrote: > From: chromatic <chroma...@wgz.org> > > > Maybe someone could get a grant to hire someone/a > company with design skills > > to come up with a better logo than the onion? > > It seems rather unlikely that TPF will go through the > business of applying for > another trademark because you don't like the onion. > I'm sure if you asked a > dozen non-techies in your office about the word "perl", > several of them would > add an A in the middle.
Just because Perl people aren't particularly good at branding doesn't mean we should ignore it. Let's face it: both the onion and the butterfly (at least, the one we have) are difficult things to build brand association with.. So's a camel, but there's been a lot of time invested in that. What is our concern vis-a-vis the camel and how can we approach O'Reilly regarding this concern? While it's certainly the trademark of a private company, I doubt very seriously that O'Reilly would be terribly averse to giving TPF plenty of leeway in using it (as past history has shown). Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
