From: torvalds@penguin.transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: IBM - Linux commercial Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 05:23:17 +0000 (UTC) In article <ED8l7.8405$ln4.633535@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, MrDuck <misterduck@earthlink.net> wrote: > >Went to Borders with my 3-year-old. Went to the computer books, looks all >boring to her until we reach a section of bookshelves featuring Linux. She >sees all the Linux books with penguins and she shouts emphatically, "I LIKE >PENGUINS!". > >Get them while they're young! I'm ashamed to admit it, but this was actually part of the criterion for the design of the penguin. And I quote from my original message that called for the penguin to be done: Give people the outline, and they should say [ sickly sweet voice, babytalk almost ] "Ooh, what a cuddly penguin, I bet he is just _stuffed_ with herring", and small children will jump up and down and scream "mommy mommy, can I have one too?". I have no morals. Linus