From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 4 7:55:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F3CF37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 07:55:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8652043E6E for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 07:55:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (malin.twenty4help.se [195.67.108.195]) by mailf.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA4Fthdl016576; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 16:55:43 +0100 (CET) X-Original-Recipient: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3DC69821.8010909@401.cx> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 16:54:09 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lefteris Tsintjelis Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many? References: <11.162dca8.2af6b3fa@aol.com> <3DC55F74.4000403@cs.umu.se> <3DC62FAF.9053A5F8@ene.asda.gr> <20021104024422.A6945@FreeBSD.org> <3DC684AE.9B56BE4E@ene.asda.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: > I think you are missing the whole point here. Let me make it a little > more clear to you. Suppose we ask this question to two different types > of people "Hey, what do you think about Beastie? What does it remind you > of?" and show them Beastie. First group is FreeBSD users or users that > know this litle cute, and as you claim "daemon", second group is the the > wide majority of people that know nothing about PCs and hardly even use > Windblows. I wonder what do u think each group will respond to this > question? > > Regards, > Lefteris > *snip* I just tested this on a very small (3 people) group that has no idea what FreeBSD is, and hardly knows how to operate any kind of computer other then to check their hotmail account. 2 of them were girls, and both found the daemon cute. One of them guessed it was the mascot for a sportsteam of some kind and the other was pretty sure she had seen that mascot on TV, in some kind of japanese cartoon. The third, a guy, guessed it was from a Counter Strike or Quake clan or similar, but was in no way offended by it. When I revealed what it actually was, one of the girls asked why a computer OS used a demon as a logo. I explained that it was not a demon but a daemon, but she didnt really seem to care. To her, it was a demon, and if a OS wanted to have a demon as mascot it was not her problem. None of them seemed offended or scared by the fact that FreeBSD uses a daemon. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message