Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:05:39 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEMJFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <200503171643.j2HGhes03771@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Jerry > McAllister > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:44 AM > To: Michael C. Shultz > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt > > Oh, quit your whining. The Beastie mascot isn't going to go away. > It got its start because someone (Kirk) enjoyed drawing it and used > it on some stuff and people enjoyed. it. > Wrong. Use of the devil image for the logo for BSD and UNIX predates Kirk. > If someone comes up with some nice looking graphic that makes a > good official logo and the FreeBSD Foundation buys it, then they > will have an official logo, owned by FreeBSD. So what. Gee, > maybe Kirk McKusick will design it. Anyway, a mascot isn't a logo > so the mascot isn't threatened. > Wrong. Beastie has always been the logo. It is one of the hallmarks of the anti-beastie campaign that the anti-beastie people are now claiming that beastie was never the logo. Ted
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