From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 29 4:55:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F3DC37BBC7 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 04:55:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 1407 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2000 11:55:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (qmailr@144.16.71.158) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 29 Jun 2000 11:55:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 3563 invoked by uid 211); 29 Jun 2000 11:54:59 -0000 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:24:59 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: James Howard Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why? Message-ID: <20000629172459.A3541@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: James Howard , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <395B229A.D6CD5BD0@mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from howardjp@glue.umd.edu on Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 07:46:25AM -0400 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.0-test3 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James Howard said on Jun 29, 2000 at 07:46:25: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, David A. Medeiros wrote: > > > Why is a figure offensive in its caricturization used as the logo for > > FreeBSD? Thanks! > > This comes up once every few days. Someone should write an official > explanation in martketese. Actually, this one sounds like a troll to me. Though no doubt there are some people who sincerely think that way. And don't even try to write an official explanation -- once such people hear that there are daemons in unix they won't go near any kind of unix again. Also, what's "caricturization"? Characterization? Caricaturization? Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message