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Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] FreeBSD and the forces of darkness. Real
  religious wars!  (fwd)
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At 01:32 PM 6/24/00 -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>         Moved to -chat.
>
>Mark Newton wrote:
>
> > > "I've just had a converstaion with xxxx xxxx (our Principal) about some
> > > of the changes.  We've had to deal with some of the philosphical issues
> > > related to BSD. As you know BSD uses a 'devil' icon to portray the BSD
> > > symbol.  Given we are a Christian school this is a significant 
> concern for
> > > us.  Even after reviewing the sites blurb about the origin of the symbol,
> > > we've come to the conclusion that it would not be appropriate for us to
> > > use the software."
> > >
> > > Can you believe it?!
>
>         As silly as this sounds to you and I, the "mascot" will be a 
> barrier to
>*BSD*'s adoption in many parts of the world. We don't have to like that
>fact, but we do have to deal with it.
>
>Doug

    Well, this Is actually easy to deal with . . . . For those so inclined 
there is always;

http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/4081

and

http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/

or

http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~isoma/spare/satanix.html


                                         Cassiel



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