Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 13:51:31 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD's Mascot Message-ID: <1637.860190691@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Apr 1997 10:16:36 PST." <33454584.39D4@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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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
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