I suggested to Philip that he should make Alex/samoyeds a symbol for the ACS at a one day seminar at Caltech last August, so I don't feel too bad about using it now--they've had a long time to follow up.
I think that we should use a Samoyed unless/until they express strong dissatisfaction. Who knows? Maybe the mushrooming of thousands of "Powered by OpenACS" sites will gently spur them to help make the open source databases comparable to Oracle.
If Philip gets too upset, we could modify the logo. For example, we could create a winged samoyed, a "pegasamoyed". The samoyed would signal the strong ties to ACS Classic, and the wings would signify the free nature of OpenACS. ACS Classic could then use a regular Samoyed as symbol.
