From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 29 18:29:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-205.telepath.com [216.14.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D367B37B79F for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:29:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 87708 invoked by uid 100); 30 Jun 2000 01:28:59 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14683.63451.880125.824444@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 20:28:59 -0500 (CDT) To: "David A. Medeiros" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why? In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Why is a figure offensive in its caricturization used as the logo for > FreeBSD? Thanks! Because the people who maintain and distribute the software don't find it offensive, nor do they intend to offend anyone with it. That more sensitive members of some groups find it offensive is unfortunate, but not cause to change the image. People use images or names that they don't realized are offensive to others regularly. Being of native american descent, I run into this kind of thing fairly often. The bill of rights doesn't include the right not to be offended. If it were, you'd probably find things you're not offended by changing their names - or images - because someone other group is offended by them. The best thing to do is to remember that your perspective is not shared by others, and develop a thicker skin.