From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 9:42: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A39337B986 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 09:42:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA19708; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 09:40:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <395CCD89.4660E85D@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 09:40:41 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0629 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: "David A. Medeiros" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Offensive figures (wa: Why?) References: <395B229A.D6CD5BD0@mediaone.net> <20000630183122.F7687@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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? Yes, that's the rationalization for it. But come on. The character is a visual pun. It's _clearly_ drawn to represent a devil/demon. The high minded "It's really a dAemon" business is just a convenient excuse. Why else would BSDi be passing out little devil horns at usenix? How would you draw a daemon, really? Don't get me wrong, I think it's fine if y'all want to have your little joke. As long as you realize that dogged dedication to it will result in limiting the audience for the product. The meta discussion about whether that's a good thing, or justified, or an example of the stupidity of the general populace is simply not relevant to the sales figure argument. It _does_ offend people. If you think that's ok, more power to you. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message