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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