Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:00:08 -0800 From: "Mark A. Garcia" <mag@hamletinc.com> To: Bob Johnson <bob89@eng.ufl.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!! Message-ID: <420BF588.80306@hamletinc.com> In-Reply-To: <420BF1E0.6090809@eng.ufl.edu> References: <420BF1E0.6090809@eng.ufl.edu>
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Bob Johnson wrote: <snip> > I work in an office largely populated by born-again Christians, and > some of them very definitely object to the BSD logo. Even after I > explained the "daemon" thing, they still didn't think BSD should use > "The Devil" as its logo. > > It IS because of "Bible thumpers". If it weren't for them, we > wouldn't be having this discussion. > So is it, "Bible thumpers" equals, born-again Christians? Or could one say that just "Bible thumpers" in general, or maybe "Koran thumpers", or even "Torah thumpers"? <snip> > Only my personal experience. In addition to not being comfortable > with the BSD logo, a couple of the programmers here didn't like my > Ouija-board mouse pad, because they associated it with the occult, and > thus The Devil. > I'd like to hear a story of a system administrator who has chosen not to use FreeBSD explicitly because of the logo. That would be way more entertaining. Everyone could learn more about human nature. -.mag
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