From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 14 12:08:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8710C16A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:08:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from loial.bytemine.net (loial.bytemine.net [217.160.141.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2346543D5D for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:08:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olegb@opendarwin.org) Received: from 0x50a5b35b.bynxx14.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk ([80.165.179.91] helo=[192.168.0.133]) by loial.bytemine.net with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.34) id 1BZqG6-00033M-JT; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:08:14 +0200 Message-ID: <40CD950D.7030108@opendarwin.org> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:07:41 +0200 From: Ole Guldberg Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Macintosh/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Edward Hendrie References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Devil Mascot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:08:14 -0000 Edward Hendrie wrote: > Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html > From a marketing > perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people > of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD > because they have religious objections to a product that is promoted by a > devil. Why should The FreeBSD project be interested in users ? It is not a commerial project. I think the FreeBSD folks are interested in making a cool unix-like operating system, not much else. Ole -- DarwinPorts committer, www.opendarwin.org/~olegb