From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 3 9:40:32 2002 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 309AB37B401 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 09:40:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from grillolja.cs.umu.se (grillolja.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50B5E43E6E for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 09:40:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavisd-new (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F10E9FE5; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 18:40:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from cs.umu.se (h96n1c1o1023.bredband.skanova.com [213.64.164.96]) by grillolja.cs.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69BB39FE2; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 18:40:22 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3DC55F74.4000403@cs.umu.se> Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 18:40:04 +0100 From: Paul Everlund User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: sv,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: JT32255@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many? References: <11.162dca8.2af6b3fa@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new amavisd-new-20020630 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG JT32255@aol.com wrote: > The traditional devil horns derive from goats, which if you have ever been > around goats, seen how they can climb, eat all vegetation in sight, climb > trees, get on roofs, etc., how kids gambol, is understandable. But it > alienates so many. But as it alienates so many Christians, Jews and Muslims > as a little Satan symbol, really limits the widespread use, public and tax > paid support and availability of BSD. A better symbol might be the statue of > liberty, or the creator of the first Library, Aristotle. The Penguin symbol > is LINUX' best advantage over BSD, not to mention all the public hostility > towards Berkley. Please read http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html. And if the little cute daemon alienates Christians, Jews, Muslims or anyone else, my personal opinion is that they should grow up. Take care and I whish you a nice day! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message