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Date:      Sun, 03 Nov 2002 18:40:04 +0100
From:      Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>
To:        JT32255@aol.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?
Message-ID:  <3DC55F74.4000403@cs.umu.se>
References:  <11.162dca8.2af6b3fa@aol.com>

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JT32255@aol.com wrote:
> The traditional devil horns derive from goats, which if you have ever been 
> around goats, seen how they can climb, eat all vegetation in sight, climb 
> trees, get on roofs, etc., how kids gambol, is understandable.  But it 
> alienates so many.  But as it alienates so many Christians, Jews and Muslims 
> as a little Satan symbol, really limits the widespread use, public and tax 
> paid support and availability of BSD.  A better symbol might be the statue of 
> liberty, or the creator of the first Library, Aristotle.  The Penguin symbol 
> is LINUX' best advantage over BSD, not to mention all the public hostility 
> towards Berkley.

Please read http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html.

And if the little cute daemon alienates Christians, Jews, Muslims or
anyone else, my personal opinion is that they should grow up.

Take care and I whish you a nice day!

Best regards,
Paul



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