Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:31:41 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty@ene.asda.gr> Cc: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>, Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>, JT32255@aol.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211041126010.63544-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <3DC68F57.97E736EF@ene.asda.gr>
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On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: The whole reason that Linux has the pinguin is that they were jealous of the BSD daemon and decided that they needed to find their own mascot. I still hear comments however like "But the BSD daemon's way cooler" from Linux people. The BSD daemon has significant historical significance and the number of people who would find it a problem is so statically insignificant that it's not worth abandonning our herritage for them. It's 1/ cute 2/ MEMORABLE 3/ relevant (if you know the history) 4/ Unique Sound slike a winner to me.. Believe me, the daemon is not going away any time soon, so let's save bandwidth... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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