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Subject: Re: Devil Mascot
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Hello all.

We are proud of it. Period.


At 08:33 a.m. 14/06/04 -0400, you wrote:
>On 13/06/04 17:02 -0700, Edward Hendrie wrote:
> >     Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot?  From a marketing
> > perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot.  There are many 
> people
> > of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD
> > because they have religious objections to a product that is promoted by a
> > devil.
> >
>
>What a ridiculous statement. Tell me, Edward, who ever made you the
>mouthpiece for 'many people of various religious backgrounds'?
>
>The FreeBSD Daemon is a mascot, and that's all ; If FreeBSD is
>promoted by a devil, then Linux is promoted by a penguin.
>
>
> >     You may think that is a small issue, but when you are trying to create
> > market awareness you need a mascot that evokes simplicity and goodwill, not
> > one that evokes evil and deception.
> >
>
>I suppose that the devil influenced the thousands of sysadmins who run
>large network installations to go over to the dark side and install
>FreeBSD.
>
>
> >     Look at how MSN is marketing its ISP.  They use characters dressed in
> > harmless butterfly costumes.  Linux, has done the same with its pudgy cute
> > penguin.  You might want to rethink your mascot.
> >
>
>I know that you are trolling, but I'm bored. If the butter fly costume
>is sucjh a great thing, then why don't you leave here and go buy one.
>Wear it to church and family reunions.
>
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