From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 24 21:00:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 321741065676 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:00:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078A58FC17 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:00:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6OL0HFn006559 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:00:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:00:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:00:17 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20100724210017.GD6335@thought.org> References: <20100724062446.GD78741@guilt.hydra> <20100724174634.GE50085@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100724174634.GE50085@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. Cc: Subject: Re: BSD logo X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:00:19 -0000 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