Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:34:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Ryan.Gamo@sce.com Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>, "David A. Medeiros" <damzz@mediaone.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Offensive figures (wa: Why?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006301033280.9654-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <OF16701279.49C87737-ON8825690E.004EF4E6@sce.com>
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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 > <grog@sydney.worldwide.le To: "David A. Medeiros" <damzz@mediaone.net> > 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
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