Linux advocates love Tux, the penguin commonly used as a mascot for Linux. Why this is, few people with taste are able to figure out. However, considering what usually passes for taste in the "geek" cliques, this is not suprising. The original drawings of Tux look like they were crafted by a lowland gorilla with spasmatic gas pain. In future renditions, the lowland gorilla must have gained access to Lightwave. Apparently about two seconds of thought was put into the choice of this important marketing tool, because it couldnt sell food to a famine victim.
Even the very choice of a penguin was severely misguided. What in the world does a penguin have to do with a unix-like operating system? Obviously, nothing. Might as well of used a crude drawing of an impacted colon. What we have here is a serious branding problem. Solution? Sanrio.
Sanrio has the ability to sell anything to anyone by simply sticking a picture of a mouthless cat upon it. Waffle makers, plush animals, vibrators, you name it. This is the direction that we want to move in. Product is less important than image. If Microsoft wants to fight with marketing rather than quality product, we can take that battle to them. With characters like
Nyago,Robowan, and Landry, Dominance over Microsoft products could be assured in a matter of months. No one could stop the juggernaut of Sanrio-branded Linux cuteness.
You know this to be true, and this is advice you ignore at your own peril.
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Linux advocates love Tux, the penguin commonly used as a mascot for Linux. Why this is, few people with taste are able to figure out. However, considering what usually passes for taste in the "geek" cliques, this is not suprising. The original drawings of Tux look like they were crafted by a lowland gorilla with spasmatic gas pain. In future renditions, the lowland gorilla must have gained access to Lightwave. Apparently about two seconds of thought was put into the choice of this important marketing tool, because it couldnt sell food to a famine victim.
Even the very choice of a penguin was severely misguided. What in the world does a penguin have to do with a unix-like operating system? Obviously, nothing. Might as well of used a crude drawing of an impacted colon. What we have here is a serious branding problem. Solution? Sanrio.
Sanrio has the ability to sell anything to anyone by simply sticking a picture of a mouthless cat upon it. Waffle makers, plush animals, vibrators, you name it. This is the direction that we want to move in. Product is less important than image. If Microsoft wants to fight with marketing rather than quality product, we can take that battle to them. With characters like Nyago, Robowan, and Landry, Dominance over Microsoft products could be assured in a matter of months. No one could stop the juggernaut of Sanrio-branded Linux cuteness.
You know this to be true, and this is advice you ignore at your own peril.