From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 30 15:57:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3F791065673 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:57:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=3081c66fe=daved@tamu.edu) Received: from os-mail-3.tamu.edu (os-mail-3.tamu.edu [165.91.23.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29FA8FC19 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:57:32 +0000 (UTC) X-TAMU-Auth-ID: daved X-TAMU-SenderIP: 128.194.78.142 X-HAT: SG None, P $RELAY, L incoming_auth X-SRBS: None X-EXTLoop1: 128.194.78.142 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,597,1315198800"; d="p7s'?scan'208";a="215121371" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_1240E4BA-45CE-40BD-ADDB-07ACB64428B5"; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1 From: David Duchscher In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:28:03 -0600 Message-Id: <5FF0E1F7-4C51-4103-91B2-02222ED66144@tamu.edu> References: <201111300158.SAA09037@lariat.net> To: Brett Glass X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Tom Limoncelli , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Superstitious users and the FreeBSD logo X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:57:33 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_1240E4BA-45CE-40BD-ADDB-07ACB64428B5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On Nov 30, 2011, at 4:16 AM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > This is yet another reason why it was brilliant for Linux to have a > Penguin as their logo. Up until then all Unix imagery was > counter-productive to wide adoption: It was mostly wizards (a reminder > that Unix is difficult to use and only understood by few) or devils > (which is just plain confusing to the 99.99% of the planet that hasn't > taken Operating Systems 101 in college). >=20 > This is not a new thing. This story is probably older than a lot of > people on this mailing list: > http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/daemon.html >=20 > (and I heard Laura tell the story once in person) >=20 > Tom > P.S. Speaking of being old.... next week is the 25th Usenix LISA > conference. Who's coming to Boston? Will there be a BSD BoF? As one that has been stopped in a Lowes by a man in an electric = wheelchair asking if I worshiped the devil do to the FreeBSD shirt I was = wearing, pull it. The logo maps to many religious people as being = demonic. Saying that, the newer higher tech logo does not seem to bring = out the same association. If you do wish to evangelize FreeBSD in this case, I second the = suggestion of just using the image with the word FreeBSD in it. Maybe = somebody can work up some images with the newer logo on it and one or = two with just the text to give people a little more flexibility for = these types of situations. -- DaveD --Apple-Mail=_1240E4BA-45CE-40BD-ADDB-07ACB64428B5--