From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Sep 13 14: 0: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD92A155F3 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:00:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id OAA56015; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:00:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199909132100.OAA56015@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Cc: From: Nik Clayton Subject: Re: advocacy/13696: FreeBSD logo Reply-To: Nik Clayton Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The following reply was made to PR advocacy/13696; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Nik Clayton To: gthalapp@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: advocacy/13696: FreeBSD logo Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:46:12 +0100 Yow. Everyone's been taking grumpy pills recently. Gene, you sent in this PR; > >Number: 13696 > >Synopsis: FreeBSD logo > >Description: > Everybody says that FreeBSD is fantastic and rock stable. I found that there is truth in it. But I am not pleased to see a devil's emblem to be used for FreeBSD logo. > >How-To-Repeat: > > >Fix: > Change the logo to something professional. This, basically, isn't going to happen, as other people have pointed out. The little horned guy ("beastie") in the FreeBSD (and NetBSD, OpenBSD, and quite possibly BSDi) logo has a long heritage with the BSD operating system. You can find a little more information about this at http://www.FreeBSD.org/copyright/daemon.html which includes quotes, links to earlier pictures, and a company you can buy stuffed daemon plushies from. In the meantime, don't be surprised if this PR gets closed :-) N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message