Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

[Bartlomiej Szymczak]

On 21:22 Sat 06 May     , Joshua Jackson wrote:
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> I've talked about this multiple times but its fallen on death ears so
> I'm going to bring it up to the everyone who reads this mailing list.
>
> I've noticed a disturbing trend with the website redesign. Larry is
> disappearing from the site. Most noticeably from the about page. The
> Larry looking for something different in a OS poster is no where to be
> found. This is quite disturbing to me because I know a lot of the
> users and developers enjoy the wackiness having a cow as a mascot
> instead of a penguin to be one of the things that make us unique.
> Gentoo has four main things that define us as a whole just for
> appearances sake. Those are: the color purple, the signature G, Larry
> the (transgender via lots of debate over if a bull can be a cow, and
> why a bull would have udders) cow, and the little alien floating guy.
>
> Even within bugzilla there are references to Larry like the following:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100001 . We've never had a
> penguin like most other distro's that help define their distro. Even
> our freebsd port is the Gentoo G in red with the horns and tail.
>
> Curtis has said he doesn't want to remove then entirely, but that is
> exactly what is happening. I just don't want to lose what gives us
> visually and jokingly personality. I just can't sit by any longer and
> not bring it up, as I feel that its just getting rid of the heritage
> that has been around longer then a lot of us have been developers.
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I like this cow very much.

Rhywek.

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