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Date:      Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:07:56 +0100
From:      Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!
Message-ID:  <18467378.20050211080756@wanadoo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <420BF1E0.6090809@eng.ufl.edu>
References:  <420BF1E0.6090809@eng.ufl.edu>

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Bob Johnson writes:

> 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 doesn't help that some people use "devil" and "daemon"
interchangeably.  Daemons were originally morally neutral entities; the
Devil (or devils in generally) have been mostly evil creatures
throughout history.  Of course, Judeo-Christian tradition turned daemons
into fundamentally evil creatures (instead of just metaphysical
helpers), too.

-- 
Anthony




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