From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 10: 6: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.wetworks.org (shell.wetworks.org [63.160.175.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B839537C652 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:06:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abc@shell.wetworks.org) Received: (qmail 11946 invoked by uid 1000); 30 Jun 2000 17:06:04 -0000 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:06:04 -0400 From: Alan Clegg To: Doug Barton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Offensive figures (wa: Why?) Message-ID: <20000630130604.Q8409@shell.wetworks.org> References: <395B229A.D6CD5BD0@mediaone.net> <20000630183122.F7687@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <395CCD89.4660E85D@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <395CCD89.4660E85D@gorean.org>; from DougB@gorean.org on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 09:40:41AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG An SMTP stream claimed that Doug Barton muttered: > > Why, is a figure offensive in its caricturization used as the logo for > > FreeBSD? The logo represents a daemon. What's offensive about that? > Yes, that's the rationalization for it. But come on. The character > is a visual pun. As is his name... "BeaSDie". (well, my "D", but Beastie is REALLY close). AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message