MapServer Foundation - Open Letter

[Tim Tsai]

Tucows already has a Platypus product (albeit not mapping related).

http://resellers.tucows.com/backoffice/

Tim

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:26:40PM -0500, Rick Levine wrote:
> UMN MapServer Users List <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU> wrote on
> 11/28/2005 05:00:52 PM:
> 
> > Hmm... according to the images on the page you sent us, there is already
> a
> > Linux Platypus.
> 
> It was a proposed logo.  Tux the penguin got the job.  His wife lays eggs
> too.  When he can get home from his busy marketing job.
> 
> >
> > I think that the playful platypus would be a bad choice.  While the
> animal
> > is an endearing creature with its poison spurs and all, it LAYS EGGS and
> we
> > all know that the Mapserver developers certainly have not laid an egg
> with
> > Mapserver!
> 
> The fact that it is warm blooded, has fur, swims like a fish and walks on
> land, has a bill like a bird and lays eggs is why it rocks.  It is all
> things to all people, at least all people who try to classify creatures
> into groups.  It is not stereotyping when you do it to animals.  If there
> was a Familae Nerdicus, the platypus would be in it.
> 
> 
> >
> > Chip Taylor