Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 11:02:01 -0500 From: Larry Sica <lomifeh@earthlink.net> To: Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty@ene.asda.gr> Cc: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>, JT32255@aol.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many? Message-ID: <C11F4CE3-F00E-11D6-947F-000393A335A2@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <3DC62FAF.9053A5F8@ene.asda.gr>
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On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 03:28 AM, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: > Grow ups or not and as ridiculous as it may sound and probably is, > these are both good points and they both could have effect on FreeBSD's > popularity, the satan looking symbol and the hostility towards > Berkeley. > As for the symbol, well, I would expect it to look something more world > wide acceptable, neutral, and cute, like Penguin is and not as a > "demon". We all know the difference between "daemons" and "demons", > however, there are plenty of people that don't and as far as popularity > goes compared to Linux, well, popular doesn't necessarily mean a > "kitchen sink" linux OS, IF HANDLED RIGHT of course, and I am sure that > there isn't anyone here that wouldn't like FreeBSD being popular. After > all, I think it deserves a lot more than Linux does and the way these > third party linux companies such as RedHat and SuSE are handling it. > I'd love to know who exactly it alienates besides some hicks that wouldn't use it anyway? > I am moving this to -chat. It doesn't belong here. > > Regards, > Lefteris > > Paul Everlund 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. Heh the imagery is far older than that, goes back to mesopotamia, there was a night demon that many think the modern imagery for the devil descended from. Also it wasnt just the goat, but couldbe any animal, often a goat, or a bull, or a dog or some other animal. >>> 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. >> All the public hostility towards Berkley? Where exactly? And imho the linux is annoying but it never stopped me from trying Linux. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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