From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 21:02:27 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0CFB16A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:02:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B936B43D31 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:02:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (ncvkbc@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1EL2Pi5094788 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:02:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1EL2Prv094787; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:02:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:02:25 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200502142102.j1EL2Prv094787@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <63867.207.219.213.162.1108412506.squirrel@207.219.213.162> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Logo competition (was: Re: Save the Demon!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:02:27 -0000 Mike Jakubik wrote: > Oliver Fromme said: > > [...] > > > I'm not seeing a problem here. Beastie is not a religious icon, > > > not is it intended to be one. > > > > Right -- but it looks like one. And every now and then > > there are people who are offended by it because of their > > religious bias. > > Boo Hoo! Use Linux then, or is the Penguin sacrilege to your religion too? Personally I do not care, but there are people who do care, and we shouldn't be too arrogant or intolerant to ignore them. There's no sane reason to scare them off to Linux. Currently, FreeBSD lacks a real logo (it does have a mascot, though, but that's a different thing), and given the fact that FreeBSD is an open source project largely driven by community efforts, it's a natural thing to let the community design and vote for a new logo by having a public competition. I don't see anything wrong with that. NetBSD did the very same thing last year, for very similar reasons. (BTW, the subject of this thread is nonsense. There's no need to "save the demon" because Beastie is not in danger at all; apart from that it's spelled "daemon" or "dĉmon".) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. I suggested holding a "Python Object Oriented Programming Seminar", but the acronym was unpopular. -- Joseph Strout