Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:00:17 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: BSD logo Message-ID: <20100724210017.GD6335@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20100724174634.GE50085@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> References: <E1OcU31-0002Iw-00.vic_sk-mail-ru@f138.mail.ru> <20100724062446.GD78741@guilt.hydra> <F7969F5C-7BBD-4F8D-AEE2-56814145ECF2@gull.us> <20100724174634.GE50085@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
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On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:46:34AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth David Brodbeck on Saturday, 24 July 2010: > > On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:24 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > >It's a cartoon character. It's not an attempt to lure your children > > >to > > >join Satan's armies. There's no reason to be "deterred" from giving > > >FreeBSD a try just because of a friendly cartoon character. > > > > I'm reminded of when some Christian groups called for a boycott of > > Apple because they had an OS project code-named "Darwin." Some people > > will just go out of their way to look for reasons to take offense. > > > > I'm reminded that the SATAN network scanner project used to ship a > > utility with the source code that would patch it to rename it > > "SANTA". I suppose someone could fork a new BSD distribution with an > > angel for a logo, to mollify these sorts of people. Call it > > BlessedBSD (BleSseD?) or something. ;) > > > That would probably make a lot of Christian BSD users happy. > > Personally, I like the devilish association, however indirect it may be. > FreeBSD is somewhat counter-cultural and anti-authoritarian, after all. > > The whole notion of the Christian heaven seems remarkably close to > Microsoft's vision of software: everyone will exist together in this > eternal utopian sameness, and they'll like it. > > Give me my daemons, my lake of fire, and some people who aren't too good > to know what they want and don't want-- we'll have a party. > I'll bring the Leinenkugels Limited. > -- > Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterling@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F > http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel
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