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To: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Subject: Re: BSD's Mascot 
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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 13:51:31 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I read some time ago that the "deamons" used by BSD were not so devilish
> after all. The term deamon , in it's latin roots, refers to a higher
> power, good or bad. In UNIX it is recognized that there are good and bad
> deamons.

Greg Lehey has a synopsis of this in his book.  Indeed, they're not
devlish.

> evil or devils, but probably our mascot will not gain acceptance in
> certain countries where religious issues are really important (Israel,
> Iran, Irak...).

I can live with that. :-)

					Jordan