Hey Jon Cason.... And um No.

[Mick]

Tux the Totem

Background cost: 4 points

Tux the penguin is the well known mascot of the Linux open source operating system and over time has become something of a mascot for the open source movement in general with Tux T-shirts, mugs, stuffed animals and other merchandise available.
As a focus for the ideology and the belief in it from its advocates this is the form that the Epiphling of the concept of open source software has taken. Since the idea of open source, that people should make available and share the code that makes up computer programs, is close the heart of Virtual Adepts and their ideals of freedom of information a few of the more spiritually inclined have taken on calling on the spirit and striking up bargains with the new totem.

Traits: Tux grants +2 dice to all Computing rolls, +1 to Technology rolls and +1 to Research related to computing or technology. Followers are expected to be active in the open source community.
Ban: Tux requires that his followers use only open source software and that any code they write they make available as open source. Glass Walker Garou could take Tux as a Totem but since he is affiliated with no Gaian spirit brood they would loose a point of temporary honour and likely be regarded as rather suspect by other Garou, although that tends to be true of computer using Urah anyway. They also make enemies of the spirit O'Mighty Dollar and its followers for their non-capitalist beleifs and practises.

[zanAspera]

When Miakota told me about this I wnt and looked it up. The more I think about it, this is a better write up for the spirit of GNU. Tux and GNU would be affiated spirits, but Tux doesn't care if you use comercial software as appropriate, his ban would probably be more along the lines of "You must never fail to promote Linux." Likewise, Tux isn't going to give you credit for using, Apple Darwin or any of the other open source Unix (not just because they are all based on BSD(stands for Berkeley Systems Design) source, but thatis a big tip off isn't it...)


Knowing what I do about software, as it is written I don't know a signle person who doesn't at sometime rely on non-open software. You want to use a cellphone? Even if you get a Linux phone try just try to find the source for your carrier's software. Wanna drive a car? What software is your car's diagnostic computer running? Hungry? Don't use a Microwave or a Oven with an electronic display. The irony being you'd basically be back to a 16th century existance in order to comply with this ban.

And playing a Glasswalker is too close to reality. The last thing I want to deal with is reality.