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On Wednesday 09 February 2005 01:53 pm, Mark Ovens wrote:
> Joshua Tinnin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 February 2005 10:38 am, Mark Ovens
> > <marko@freebsd.org>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> I see that NetBSD and OpenBSD have already dropped Beastie - the
> >> latter adopting a butt-ugly fish (the style of which implies
> >> bloated fatware to me).
> >
> > Oh, I hardly see it that way. Do you think OpenBSD is "bloated
> > fatware?"
>
> No, just my interpretation of what the logo _could_ be seen to
> represent.
>
> > I think anyone who understands security enough to be interested in
> > OpenBSD knows why Puffy is a blowfish.
>
> Ah, so that's what it is. Never was much good at ichthyology ;-)
>
> Still looks butt-ugly though.
>
> Mark

Yes, and Windows 98 was soooo inviting!  Sometimes, ugly is good.