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----- Original Message ----- 
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>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:05 AM
Subject: RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt


>
>
>> -----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.

Who claims that Beastie was never the logo?

Who cares?  Will the logo affect the OS?  If not .. Im happy :-)

T


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