From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 14 12:36:06 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 4DD2216A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:36:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.rtl.org (rtl-3.i2k.com [63.94.12.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7162A43D5A for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:36:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jstewart@rtl.org) Received: from mis3n.rtl.org (rtl-2.i2k.com [63.94.12.206]) by mail.rtl.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8497C30ABD; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:32:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mis3n.rtl.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:33:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:33:29 -0400 From: Jason Stewart To: Edward Hendrie Message-ID: <20040614123329.GB1072@rtl.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edward Hendrie , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 12:36:06 -0000 On 13/06/04 17:02 -0700, Edward Hendrie wrote: > Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? 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. > What a ridiculous statement. Tell me, Edward, who ever made you the mouthpiece for 'many people of various religious backgrounds'? The FreeBSD Daemon is a mascot, and that's all ; If FreeBSD is promoted by a devil, then Linux is promoted by a penguin. > You may think that is a small issue, but when you are trying to create > market awareness you need a mascot that evokes simplicity and goodwill, not > one that evokes evil and deception. > I suppose that the devil influenced the thousands of sysadmins who run large network installations to go over to the dark side and install FreeBSD. > Look at how MSN is marketing its ISP. They use characters dressed in > harmless butterfly costumes. Linux, has done the same with its pudgy cute > penguin. You might want to rethink your mascot. > I know that you are trolling, but I'm bored. If the butter fly costume is sucjh a great thing, then why don't you leave here and go buy one. Wear it to church and family reunions. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"