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From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah)
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If memory serves me right, "D. Gregory" wrote:
> As a newcomer to the world of WEB hosting, I'm interested to go with the
> best.
> My research indicates that FreeBSD is the best for WEB servers.

Great, I'm glad to hear that!

> Having said that, I'm perplexed by the demon caricature that you use.
> Though I'm sure it's displayed in good humor, you may want to consider that
> Bible believers and other of faith would probably be happier it that were
> not your logo.

The daemon (not demon) logo predates FreeBSD...in general he's been a mascot 
for BSD operating systems for quite some time.  For a few words as to *why* 
BSD has the daemon as its mascot, take a look at:

http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html

I've never interpreted the BSD daemon as a sign of disrespect or jest towards 
Christianity or any other religion, and I'm confident that it was never 
intended as such.

In peace,

Bruce.

PS.  I once made the mistake of referring to the BSD daemon as "the little 
devil logo" in front of Kirk McKusick.  He was very polite in correcting me, 
but nevertheless I nearly died of embarassment when I realized my error.




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