From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 1 18:36:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A77737BA6F for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 18:36:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA18696; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 11:06:04 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 11:06:04 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ryan.Gamo@sce.com Cc: "David A. Medeiros" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Offensive figures (wa: Why?) Message-ID: <20000702110604.M18213@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Friday, 30 June 2000 at 7:27:58 -0700, Ryan.Gamo@sce.com 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? > > 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). The daemon, of course, predates both the Berkeley Daemon and your birth. See http://www.daemonnews.org/199810/daemon.html for more details. > > 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 > > mis.com> cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Sent by: Subject: Offensive figures (wa: Why?) > owner-freebsd-questions@F > reeBSD.ORG Is all this really necessary? And what's it supposed to mean? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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