Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:30:38 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Save the Demon! Message-ID: <200502141430.j1EEUca7078709@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20050214141324.2835E43D2F@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk wrote:
> olli@lurza.secnetix.de wrote:
> > AFAIK, one of the main points of that logo competition is
> > to do away with anything that could be interpreted in an
> > religious way. Therefore an image of an Angel would be
> > completely inappropriate. (Why feminine anyway? Beastie
> > has no specific gender, therefore it would be best to not
> > bias the logo one way or the other.)
>
> I'm not seeing a problem here. Beastie is not a religious icon,
> not is it intended to be one.
Right -- but it looks like one. And every now and then
there are people who are offended by it because of their
religious bias.
> FreeBSD has no connection (afaik) with any religion.
Right.
> What we do have is a well recognised and accepted logo which
> has been around for a long time. Changing it because a couple
> of people have misinterpreted it strikes me as foot shooting.
Nobody is proposing to change the existing mascot, so there
is no foot shooting.
This competition is about creating a new logo, not changing
the existing mascot. Putting yet another religous creature
(such as an angel) into the newly designed logo would make
matters worse -- _That_ would qualify as foot shooting.
Best regards
Oliver
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