Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 17:24:28 -0500 From: Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD@keyslapper.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated? Message-ID: <20041223222428.GA20482@keyslapper.org> In-Reply-To: <200412231241.18878.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <20041223112731.GA32750@ninja.terrabionic.com> <41CAFA83.4020300@orchid.homeunix.org> <1BE28C962CDB9C1F9E0EBBF7@[192.168.100.102]> <200412231241.18878.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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On 12/23/04 12:41 PM, Joshua Tinnin sat at the `puter and typed: > On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:37 am, Stefan Farrenkopf > <sfarren@gwdg.de> wrote: > > --On Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2004 18:04 Uhr +0100 Karol Kwiatkowski > > <freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org> wrote: > > > A bit OT, but to make things clear I'd like to point out it's not > > > the devil. It's a daemon. > > > BSD Daemon. > > > > Sure, you are right it's a daemon; I used "devil" because of it's > > relation to (d)"evil". > > How about change it to an eye on a pyramid? Yeah! Let's do THAT! LOL :) > Frankly, this is a bit silly, and it's been beaten to death, but every > time it comes up it still strikes me as silly. The world does not > revolve around everyone's peculiar, individual sensibilites. Thank you! I couldn't have said it better myself. Certainly not so tactfully. > You can't > please everyone - particularly not deeply religious people, and each > group is offended by different things - so it's not even worth playing > that game. Thank you again! > If you think Procter & Gamble are satanic for using a > particular symbol as their logo: > http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/procter.asp , fine, but don't > expect them to bend over backwards and change their logo because you > think so. If you are so sensitive as to be swayed by a logo that isn't > even meant to be offensive in the first place, and over technical > considerations, then chances are FreeBSD isn't for you, but thats just > MO. Hear, Hear! <SNIP LONG OT RANT> Call me a skeptic, call me insensitive to religious superstition, but I am not ignorant to the relevance of the logo, and I think the loader, the website, and everything else about FreeBSD is on the right track. Jeez. Ok, rest assured the snip above was long and way OT, but I need to vent when I think Beastie is getting dissed. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD@keyslapper.org Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
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