--- 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
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