From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 12:46:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from camelot.bitart.com (BITart-45.BITart.com [206.103.221.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C809E37B645 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:46:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gerti@bitart.com) Received: (qmail 25070 invoked by uid 101); 30 Jun 2000 19:46:36 -0000 Message-ID: <20000630194636.25069.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.2mach v148) In-Reply-To: <395CCD89.4660E85D@gorean.org> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.2mach (Enhance 2.2p1) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148) From: Gerd Knops Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:46:36 -0500 To: Doug Barton Subject: Re: Offensive figures (wa: Why?) Cc: Greg Lehey , "David A. Medeiros" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: gerti-freebdq@BITart.com References: <395B229A.D6CD5BD0@mediaone.net> <20000630183122.F7687@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <395CCD89.4660E85D@gorean.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton wrote: > 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. > I have to agree. There are some cultures on this planet where images like the FreeBSD logo are not acceptable. Period. Distributing a FreeBSD system in such a country using the daemon as sreen saver or sticker on the PC would be in very poor taste. So while I like that little daemon, in the interest of marketing FreeBSD throughout the world it is not a wise choice of a logo. Gerd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message