From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 18:40:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C94116A4CF for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:40:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 450CE43D48 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:40:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marko@freebsd.org) Received: from movens.plus.com ([80.229.231.20] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Cywkm-000B2Z-Uo; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:39:57 +0000 Message-ID: <420A5898.2010508@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:38:16 +0000 From: Mark Ovens User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 7.0 (Windows/20050209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ricardo Alves dos Reis References: <420A4781.8080002@yahoo.com.br> In-Reply-To: <420A4781.8080002@yahoo.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0506-0, 08/02/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public competition for the new logo design. ???? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:40:01 -0000 Ricardo Alves dos Reis wrote: > Unfortunately, the cute FreeBSD daemon is sometimes treated with > misunderstanding in the religious and cultural context. That's why The > FreeBSD Project is announcing a public competition for the new logo > design. You can find the rules of the competition in this document. > > http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/announce.txt ?????? > So, the FreeBSD Project is giving in to the narrow-minded, puritanical, moral minority who, despite their preachings are not very well-informed as they don't know the difference between 'demon' and 'daemon'. Is this a sign (or a victim perhaps?) of the "growing conservatism sweeping Bush's America"? The Mozilla project had/has to put up with similar crap about it's logo because numpties think that the red star represents Communism. Oh, and since we're being all Politically Correct.... * The logo must not exploit or offend a person's sex, race, religion, morality, culture , nor be salacious or pornographic. we should drop 'BSD' from the name because, over the years, plenty of people have assumed that *BSD is some form of kinky sex outfit - same problem, they don't know the difference between BSD and BDSM. I see that NetBSD and OpenBSD have already dropped Beastie - the latter adopting a butt-ugly fish (the style of which implies bloated fatware to me). Beastie has been the BSD symbol for nearly 17 years (based on Kirk's copyright date of 1988) and, as far as I'm concerned it always will be. Just my €0.02 of course. Mark --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0506-0, 08/02/2005 Tested on: 09/02/2005 18:38:18 avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com