Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:25:12 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about the mascot Message-ID: <199908101725.AA277355913@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Aug 1999 16:05:36 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908041558350.24510-100000@dt011n65.san.rr.com>
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>Inre >the mascot issue, it was acknowledged in a prior round of this debate that >some promotional materials sans "devils" would be a good idea, but I've >never seen any produced. Personally, I know that freebsd is not demonic, >however I won't display FreeBSD stuff with devils on it for fear of >confusing people who don't share our level of "sophistication" with >regards to obscure greek mysticism. Funny, I've done the same thing. I have one really die-hard unix-forever user who was so excited when he learned I was putting FreeBSD on all our new servers rather than NT. When he saw the stickers that came in the WC book/CD package he wanted me to be sure to put then on all the servers, just to make sure everyone knew they weren't running an M$ OS. I looked at all the "cute little devils", rolled my eyes, and tossed them aside. Sure one can play word games to explain it away, but when people look at that symbol they see a devil, however cute he may be. Few people around have been around long enough to know the first thing about unix lineage and it gets fewer every year. Traditional as it may be, I feel the "cute little devil" was an unfortunate mascot choice and I support the idea of producing some promotional materials without his image on them. Meanwhile, like Doug I am not displaying the current ones. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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