Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 10:28:31 +0200 From: Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty@ene.asda.gr> To: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> Cc: JT32255@aol.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many? Message-ID: <3DC62FAF.9053A5F8@ene.asda.gr> References: <11.162dca8.2af6b3fa@aol.com> <3DC55F74.4000403@cs.umu.se>
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Grow ups or not and as ridiculous as it may sound and probably is, these are both good points and they both could have effect on FreeBSD's popularity, the satan looking symbol and the hostility towards Berkeley. As for the symbol, well, I would expect it to look something more world wide acceptable, neutral, and cute, like Penguin is and not as a "demon". We all know the difference between "daemons" and "demons", however, there are plenty of people that don't and as far as popularity goes compared to Linux, well, popular doesn't necessarily mean a "kitchen sink" linux OS, IF HANDLED RIGHT of course, and I am sure that there isn't anyone here that wouldn't like FreeBSD being popular. After all, I think it deserves a lot more than Linux does and the way these third party linux companies such as RedHat and SuSE are handling it. I am moving this to -chat. It doesn't belong here. Regards, Lefteris Paul Everlund wrote: > > JT32255@aol.com wrote: > > The traditional devil horns derive from goats, which if you have ever been > > around goats, seen how they can climb, eat all vegetation in sight, climb > > trees, get on roofs, etc., how kids gambol, is understandable. But it > > alienates so many. But as it alienates so many Christians, Jews and Muslims > > as a little Satan symbol, really limits the widespread use, public and tax > > paid support and availability of BSD. A better symbol might be the statue of > > liberty, or the creator of the first Library, Aristotle. The Penguin symbol > > is LINUX' best advantage over BSD, not to mention all the public hostility > > towards Berkley. > > Please read http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html. > > And if the little cute daemon alienates Christians, Jews, Muslims or > anyone else, my personal opinion is that they should grow up. > > Take care and I whish you a nice day! > > Best regards, > Paul > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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