Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 09:53:27 -0500 From: Marcia Barrett Nice <mimerki@myrealbox.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty@ene.asda.gr> Subject: Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many? Message-ID: <02110409532703.00413@Rozinante> In-Reply-To: <3DC684AE.9B56BE4E@ene.asda.gr> References: <11.162dca8.2af6b3fa@aol.com> <20021104024422.A6945@FreeBSD.org> <3DC684AE.9B56BE4E@ene.asda.gr>
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On Monday 04 November 2002 09:31 am, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?: | I think you are missing the whole point here. Let me make it a little | more clear to you. Suppose we ask this question to two different types | of people "Hey, what do you think about Beastie? What does it remind you | of?" and show them Beastie. First group is FreeBSD users or users that | know this litle cute, and as you claim "daemon", second group is the the | wide majority of people that know nothing about PCs and hardly even use | Windblows. I wonder what do u think each group will respond to this | question? | Well, everyone I've met who doesn't recognize the Beastie as a BSD symbol seems to assume it's a sports mascot. Similarly, random people don't seem to assume that my computer voodoo doll is indicative of my casting evil curses on their computers and I've been asked on ocassion if I'm a big Pittsburgh (Penguins) fan. Marci -- Oh thou of noble birth meditate upon thy own tutelary deity." -The Tibetan Book of the Dead To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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