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Date:      Sun, 3 Nov 2002 14:17:26 -0500
From:      Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com>
To:        Lee Nelson <jld123@pobox.com>
Cc:        JT32255@aol.com, Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?
Message-ID:  <20021103141726.B27523@sjt-u10.cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <XVA5HD9797IDDBCBC808LF7506NJOJYV.3dc57619@lee>; from jld123@pobox.com on Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 02:16:41PM -0500
References:  <3DC55F74.4000403@cs.umu.se> <XVA5HD9797IDDBCBC808LF7506NJOJYV.3dc57619@lee>

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Please don't feed the troll :)

+---- Lee Nelson wrote:
|  JT32255 has a point.
| 
|   It's clear that we're not going to change how people
| react to the daemon logo.  So, if advocacy is a goal,
| it makes sense to drop the daemon and come up with
| something more palatable to the general public.
| 
|   But a larger audience for FreeBSD may actually
| detract from its usefulness.  FreeBSD currently does
| not suffer from the "kitchen sink" problem that Linux
| has with its kerrnel.  And as a result we don't have
| kernel patches for critical bugs every couple of weeks. 
| 
|   Also, bringing FreeBSD to the masses would divert
| effort away from it's current goals of stability and
| correctness.  Just look at what Red Hat and Mandrake
| have done to Linux. 
| 
|   -Lee
| 
| 11/3/02 12:40:04 PM, Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> 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.  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.
| >
| >Please read http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html.
| >
| >And if the little cute daemon alienates Christians, Jews, Muslims or
| >anyone else, my personal opinion is that they should grow up.
| >
| >Take care and I whish you a nice day!
| >
| >Best regards,
| >Paul
| >
| >
| >
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| >
| >
| 
| 
| 
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+---end quoted text---

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Steve Tremblett
Cisco Systems

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