<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 13, 2006, at 3:03 PM, <A href="mailto:pythonmac-sig-request@python.org">pythonmac-sig-request@python.org</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">1. Monty Python related (to avoid the annoying offensive imagery <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">arguments)</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Monty Python is copyrighted work. I would advise keeping a careful distance from anything commercially recognizable unless you put aside a significant settlement fund and lawyers fees for the settlement negotiation. But then you could gamble that Michael Palin et al are fans of open source software, want to contribute to the cause, and will let you use it gratis. Frankly, the language is named after a snake, a pretty noble beast actually, and I am not sure how Nature offends in this case. I think FORTRAN, PERL, C, Java, and C# are banal and unimaginitive in fact. Not that i think animals are good language names, but then what is? But the essence of naming is representation and memorability. I think Python is better than many in those respects. I suggest the collective community has 'bigger fish to fry' but since your are volunteers that is a suggestion.</DIV></BODY></HTML>