From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Aug 10 11: 5:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fellspt.charm.net (fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17216154F5; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:05:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dutch@charm.net) Received: from charm.net (coretel-116-130.charm.net [209.143.116.130]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA18773; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:04:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37B0698E.8ACE84F5@charm.net> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:03:58 -0400 From: Dutch Collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about the mascot References: <199908101747.MAA25151@free.pcs> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > In article you write: > > > >>Inre > >>the mascot issue, it was acknowledged in a prior round of this debate that > >>some promotional materials sans "devils" would be a good idea, but I've > >>never seen any produced. Personally, I know that freebsd is not demonic, > >>however I won't display FreeBSD stuff with devils on it for fear of > >>confusing people who don't share our level of "sophistication" with > >>regards to obscure greek mysticism. > > > >Traditional as it may be, I feel the "cute little devil" was an > >unfortunate mascot choice and I support the idea of producing some > >promotional materials without his image on them. Meanwhile, like Doug > >I am not displaying the current ones. > > I'm of the opinion that the daemon looks cute, and there isn't > _that_ much resistance in the mainstream as you would think. > > When was the last time you heard the press making an uproar over > the Duke Blue Devils? Arizona Sun Devils? IMHO, their logos are > more "demonic" than ours, but it doesn't seem to hurt them in the > national news. And they get a lot more press than we do. There's > even the New Jersey Devils, although their logo is more stylized. > > Hmm. Perhaps someone should put the beastie in a blue dress. :-) > -- > Jonathan > No not that!!!! No ACC basketball team will be able to beat Duke then. Do you really want Duke to have the extra help. [U of Maryland, Terps] -d To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message