Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:57:14 -0500 From: "Thompson, Jimi" <JimiT@mail.cox.smu.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Devil Mascot Message-ID: <4B3F673172B98D449EBCC3BE8316F52403BA1722@exch4.elcsb.net>
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<SNIP> > 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. Why should The FreeBSD project be interested in users ? It is not a=20 commerial project. I think the FreeBSD folks are interested in making a=20 cool unix-like operating system, not much else. </SNIP> <SOAPBOX> My personal view is that the "daemon" logo performs as pre-filter to help us locate "reasonable" users. You are either a sufficiently advanced as a person to "deal" using a product that has a daemon for a logo, in which case we welcome you as a user of one of the finest operating systems around. If you are not sufficiently advanced to handle this concept then you won't use our product in which case the only thing we miss out on dealing with yet another religious bigot. Where's the downside? =20 </SOAPBOX> 2 cents, Jimi
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