Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 05:05:03 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> To: Stanislav Posonsky <posonsky@iname.ru> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About The Symbolism Message-ID: <20001120050503.A96358@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKNAHOMHNAFGENLDAIEPOCDAA.posonsky@iname.ru>; from posonsky@iname.ru on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:03:52PM %2B0800 References: <NDBBKNAHOMHNAFGENLDAIEPOCDAA.posonsky@iname.ru>
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On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:03:52PM +0800, Stanislav Posonsky scribbled: | Can anyone give me an answer to my question why an impish creature is an | emblem of FreeBSD? And concerning the watchword `FreeBSD: The Power to | Serve`, what power is implied? The ability to be a server platform outperforming many many OS'es | peoples! At the same time as an Orthodox believer I cannot and should not | use it because of such an ambiguous (or may be not ambiguous?) symbolism. It is not religious, the projected demon image as a red guy with horns is only propagated since the 19th Century. | I think that the present state of things may present a serious obstacle to | a wider spread of FreeBSD in countries traditionally professing | Christianity, Judaism and Islam. No, the image of the demon in religious studies has shown that they are not red with horns. (This is from me as a history minor who has taken numerous comparative religious history courses.) Islam does not have a "demon" as you mention. | FreeBSD just like any other Unix OS is first of all a multi-user OS aiming | at being used by people of many nationalities, language groups and religious By being a good OS, it is a good OS, and people will use a good OS. | Is it may be worth giving up this devilry in favour of a more neutral | symbolism? No, he is fine the way it is. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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