From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 14 17:53:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C24F116A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:53:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bsd.home.net (h004005b2f1be.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.62.4.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2864743D5A for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:53:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gp@bsd.home.net) Received: from bsd.home.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bsd.home.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5EHrJ1c000597; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:53:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gp@bsd.home.net) Received: (from gp@localhost) by bsd.home.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i5EHrJ4B000596; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:53:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gp) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:53:18 -0400 From: Greg Pavelcak To: Bill Moran Message-ID: <20040614175318.GA549@bsd.home.net> Mail-Followup-To: Greg Pavelcak , Bill Moran , Edward Hendrie , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040614083140.4c8c12e5.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040614083140.4c8c12e5.wmoran@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Edward Hendrie cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Devil Mascot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:53:33 -0000 On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:31:40AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > This has come up 100000000 times. It's simply not going to happen because the > beastie has too much historical significance. It's a matter of pride that the > beastie mascot has more history than the Linux penguin and the Microshit > butterfly put together. Besides, he wasn't designed to be "market friendly", > he was designed to be a technical pun (he's not a devil, he's a daemon) > > There are wild, baseless predictions that the world will reject FreeBSD because > of the beastie every 6 months or so. Aside from the fact that I don't believe > it, it simply doesn't bear out in reality. There are more people hijacking the > beastie to use as a logo for other things than I can keep track of. I've seen > more renditions of the beastie in artwork than both the penguin and the > butterfly combined. The simple fact is that _most_ people like the beastie, > and the few who are horribly offended by it don't seem to be significant in any > way. > Actually, it's hard to tell if they're hijacking beastie or Sparkie, the Arizona State Sun Devil. I understand that Sparkie was done by a Disney animator, but I don't know when he was born. He easily goes back to the early seventies. Greg