[boost] Re: Boost Logo Contest Extended [mascot]

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-17 21:18:16

Edward Diener wrote:
> David B. Held wrote:
>> Jonathan Turkanis wrote:

>>> Is there room for two ghosts in the software world?
>>>
>>> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
>>
>> Well, there's lots more ghosts than that.  There's Norton Ghost as
>> well.  But the name isn't "ghost".  It's "Boo". ;>  And eventually,
>> even O'Reilly will have to start reusing animals.
>
> Eventually is right, as in after printing a new book each day for
> thirty thousand years at least. The number of animal species in
> existence is far greater than you imagine. Even if we take only the
> number of vertebrate species, which make up a mere 1% or so of the
> total number of animal species, I do not think that O'Reilly will run out
> of animals any time soon.

I think Dave was just talking about the cute and cuddly animals.

Jonathan