Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 14:16:41 -0500 From: Lee Nelson <jld123@pobox.com> To: JT32255@aol.com, Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many? Message-ID: <XVA5HD9797IDDBCBC808LF7506NJOJYV.3dc57619@lee> In-Reply-To: <3DC55F74.4000403@cs.umu.se>
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JT32255 has a point. It's clear that we're not going to change how people react to the daemon logo. So, if advocacy is a goal, it makes sense to drop the daemon and come up with something more palatable to the general public. But a larger audience for FreeBSD may actually detract from its usefulness. FreeBSD currently does not suffer from the "kitchen sink" problem that Linux has with its kerrnel. And as a result we don't have kernel patches for critical bugs every couple of weeks. Also, bringing FreeBSD to the masses would divert effort away from it's current goals of stability and correctness. Just look at what Red Hat and Mandrake have done to Linux. -Lee 11/3/02 12:40:04 PM, Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> wrote: >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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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