[plug] Australia and New Zealand slow to take up Linux

[Leon Brooks]

On Thursday 26 January 2006 22:10, posix wrote:
> If Australia had their own Gnome or New Zealander's with their own
> Kiwi Gnome, maybe it would catch on.

I can't see the rest of the world being happy with a concrete 
Aboriginal, spears or no, and I don't think the Wagyl would really be 
all that widely understood.

The problem with an Australian gnome is that it varies (even amongst the 
whitefellas) from region to region. I think the closest you'd get would 
be a fluffy little koala, which would probably be an instant box-office 
exploder with the Japanese and Koreans. A kangaroo (NSW Aboriginal 
dialect for "WTF?") would be instantly and rudely rejected by the 
Austrians. The friendly little Gecko, bless his little Van Der Waals 
socks, has already been taken.

Cheers; Leon

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