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

[Senectus .]

On 2/5/06, Leon Brooks <leon at cyberknights.com.au> wrote:
> 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,

LOL
Yeah, and Neville doesn't really ring the same way as "Tux" does ;-)

> 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.

It'll be interesting to see if the Quokka Gets to be "mascot" for
Ubuntu at some stage ;-)


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