Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:29:58 -0700 From: Joe.Warner@smed.com To: "Kenneth P. Stox" <stox@imagescape.com> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org, Stanislav Posonsky <posonsky@iname.ru> Subject: RE: About The Symbolism Message-ID: <8525699F.0075DB83.00@Deimos.smed.com>
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Didn't the same or a similar cartoon devil appear in old "Casper the Friendly Ghost" cartoons? Joe |--------+-----------------------> | | "Kenneth P. | | | Stox" | | | <stox@imagesc| | | ape.com> | | | | | | 11/22/00 | | | 01:21 PM | | | | |--------+-----------------------> >---------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: Stanislav Posonsky <posonsky@iname.ru> | | cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, (bcc: Joe | | Warner/SMS) | | Subject: RE: About The Symbolism | >---------------------------------------------------------| It is a Daemon, not the Devil. As many will point out, it has been the beloved mascot of BSD for many years. The only way it will be taken away is after they take the guns from our cold dead hands. ;-> I will point out that my company provides Internet services to wide range of religously affiliated organizations from Lutherans to Evangelicals to a catholic brotherhood. All of these organizations have been extremely happy with FreeBSD. As far as I know, none of them has attempted to Exorcise any FreeBSd servers yet, though I do know an Exchange server that could probably use it. They know, well enough, that the devil will appear to sheep's clothing. I personally suspect he will be wearing glasses and live somewhere in the northwest of Washington state. Always remember, in contrast to some other operating systems, FreeBSD people use the system, they don't worship it. If you wish, you can think of it as the ultimate victory, using the devil to do god's work. On 20-Nov-00 Stanislav Posonsky wrote: > I like FreeBSD itself. It is a nice and the coolest OS of all times > and > peoples! At the same time as an Orthodox believer I cannot and should not > use it because of such an ambiguous (or may be not ambiguous?) symbolism. > I think that the present state of things may present a serious > obstacle > to > a wider spread of FreeBSD in countries traditionally professing > Christianity, Judaism and Islam. > How essential, do you think, is such a symbolism for FreeBSD products > line? > FreeBSD just like any other Unix OS is first of all a multi-user OS > aiming > at being used by people of many nationalities, language groups and religious > beliefs. I personally think that it should not contain any points > dicriminating persons working with it in any way. > Is it may be worth giving up this devilry in favour of a more > neutral > symbolism? ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Kenneth P. Stox <stox@imagescape.com> Date: 22-Nov-00 Time: 13:36:05 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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