From: _why <why@...>
Date: 2008-08-25T01:38:45+09:00
Subject: Re: A Mascot...

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:21:10PM +0900, Karl von Laudermann wrote:
> Actually, didn't _why create this duck to be a ruby mascot?
> http://redhanded.hobix.com/images/redhanded-duck.gif

http://whytheluckystiff.net/clog/ruby/theOnlyCopyrightlessDuckInRecentHistory.html

It is only a duck used to evade copyright infringement.  A personal
mascot, spawned by a thread long ago called "duck images" here on
ruby-talk.  There used to have a drb server that would cough up ASCII
duck animations.

I know matz was originally amenable to the ruby-crowned kinglet.
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/1469

_why