From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 7:36:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D972937BD10 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 07:36:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA06216; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:35:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:34:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: Ryan.Gamo@sce.com Cc: Greg Lehey , "David A. Medeiros" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Offensive figures (wa: Why?) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oh I have an admin that just WONT chown a file or dir 666 - he does 777 or 444... I think it runs along the same lines as a co worker years ago, when she lambasted me over the fact that I had purchased a real christmas tree - something about my contributing to the tear down of the rain forests I think.. On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 Ryan.Gamo@sce.com wrote: > > I think they've watered the demon down to serve as an acceptable logo. Has > about as much meaning to it as the Linux Penguin. It looks good on shirts, > which is probably it's most important purpose. > > Someone once told me that they used it because it was the UC Berkeley > mascot - hardly. They've been the Golden Bears for as long as I've been a > Californian - 19 years (the first 3 in diapers). > > Ryan M. Gamo > IT Application Services - TDBU > Phone: (626)308-6696 * Fax: (626)308-6390 > Pager: (888)586-7992 PIN 318489 > "KNOW YOUR ROLE" > > > > Greg Lehey > > mis.com> cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Sent by: Subject: Offensive figures (wa: Why?) > owner-freebsd-questions@F > reeBSD.ORG > > > 06/30/2000 01:31 AM > > > > > On Thursday, 29 June 2000 at 6:19:06 -0400, David A. Medeiros wrote: > > Why is a figure offensive in its caricturization used as the logo for > > FreeBSD? Thanks! > > Why, is a figure offensive in its caricturization used as the logo for > FreeBSD? The logo represents a daemon. What's offensive about that? > > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message