Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 12:50:00 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, tedm@toybox.placo.com, gldisater@gmail.com, hildebeb@mts.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server Message-ID: <200703051150.l25Bo00p030724@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <013801c74601$2bbd0cf0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Sorry for the late reply, but I think this one needs a correction, so others don't find wrong information in the archives ... Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > [...] > The FreeBSD Beastie was struck from his position as logo for FreeBSD > for some EXTREMELY minor controversy surrounding religions icons. > Well, using a Devil image didn't pirate anyone software or break a law. > Yet Beastie was axed for exactly the same "guilt by association" reasons. I'm afraid that paragraph is completely wrong. The BSD daemon (sometimes called "Beastie", but that's not its official name) was not "struck from his position as a logo", and it was not "axed". The BSD daemon never was a logo of the FreeBSD project. It was rather a mascot (and it still is!). However, it was sometimes used in a context where a logo would be used normally, simply for the fact that FreeBSD didn't have a real logo. Now, after the result of the logo contest last year, FreeBSD has a real, official logo, in addition to the BSD daemon mascot. Just look at www.freebsd.org. It doesn't look axed to me. ;-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart Any opinions expressed in this message are personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix GmbH & Co KG in any way. FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.pl count=1 $ file test.pl test.pl: perl script text executable
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200703051150.l25Bo00p030724>