From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jan 11 21:24:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA28084 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 21:24:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA28077 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 21:24:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02654; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:24:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <369ADC7A.96FB883B@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:24:10 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stefanos@e-scape.net CC: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, -kevin- Subject: Re: State of the union, 1999. References: <3.0.5.32.19990110013242.0094db10@mail.frmt1.sfba.home.com> <9901111956.AA02634@traveler.uniscape.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kiakas wrote: > > Let's think of this issue from a small business point of view. > Does the owner want to deal with the PR mess if some one starts spreading > rumors about devil worshipping at the company because they use FreeBSD? I've got a better idea. Let's look at this from the point of view that it has been discussed over and over again before, long before you crowd of newbies ever flocked in here, and WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET RID OF THE DAEMON! If a company doesn't want to use the most stable, reliable operating system on the planet because they're afraid someone might call them a devil-worshipper, they're just going to have to live with that decision. WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET RID OF THE DAEMON! Any of you who really don't like this are perfectly free to take the FreeBSD source tree and go off and start your own AngelOS project. Adopt whatever you want for a mascot, attempt whatever feats of marketing and engineering prowess you feel are necessary, do whatever you want with your distributions. The BSD license allows you to do this. To get some glimmer of how important this point is, consider the fact that ALL THREE free BSD projects use various forms of the daemon as their logo. So, to sum it all up, WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET RID OF THE DAEMON! If anyone has any questions, I first want you to carefully consider which part of WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET RID OF THE DAEMON! didn't you understand? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message