Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 14:11:39 -0500 From: Larry Sica <lomifeh@earthlink.net> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty@ene.asda.gr>, Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>, JT32255@aol.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many? Message-ID: <3ED52DFF-F029-11D6-947F-000393A335A2@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20021104183918.GQ197@vectors.cx>
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On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 01:39 PM, Adam Weinberger wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > OK. First of all, I'm removing freebsd-questions from the cc: list. > Freebsd-chat was added to the cc: list to MOVE it to -chat, not to > encourage cross-posting ::) > >>> (11.04.2002 @ 0802 PST): Larry Sica said, in 2.3K: << >> I'd love to know who exactly it alienates besides some hicks that >> wouldn't use it anyway? > > Heh. Amusing as that concept is, at least acknowledge that the mascot > does in fact piss off people who find the devil offensive. I shudder > every time I read a Family Circus strip with a very religious, angelic > theme, but that doesn't make me anything except opinionated. > Well my point was those who might be pissed off by it wouldn't be using FreeBSD anyway, and hell in the USA someone is always offended by something. It's the American Way ;). <snip some> >>>>> hostility >>>>> towards Berkley. >> >> All the public hostility towards Berkley? Where exactly? > > I live in Berkeley, and I can tell you that there is in fact hostility > towards the school, but I haven't met a single person yet, online or > offline, who says, "Grr, Berkeley, devil horns, mascot, arrr." There's > great hostility towards the school from anybody who tried to register > for classes there or get a refund. I don't go to the school, and I hear > much of these complaints. And then there's the rest of us who live in > Berkeley and have been screwed by the City making sweeping laws > affecting all citizens to keep the students at bay (like all > businesses, > including gas stations and 7-11's, have to close early... around > midnight. And the 7-11 has a sign in the window that says "Only 1 > student allowed in the store at a time," which they enforce randomly > against anybody in their 20's). > I mean people all over the world hating berkeley, sounds like normal local gripes mostly there. I have never been to the school but the name doesn't bring instant hate heh. I didn't know their bueracracy was so..well annoying heh. >> And imho the >> linux is annoying but it never stopped me from trying Linux. > > I can't say that I understand that statemente. > forgot to add the word penguin..sorry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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