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Date:      Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:22:30 +0100
From:      Romain =?iso-8859-1?Q?Tarti=E8re?= <romain@blogreen.org>
To:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Beastie
Message-ID:  <20081220122230.GA73630@blogreen.org>
In-Reply-To: <31515339.89301229762788249.JavaMail.nabble@isper.nabble.com>
References:  <31515339.89301229762788249.JavaMail.nabble@isper.nabble.com>

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Hi

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:46:28AM -0800, Steve@foo-unix.org wrote:
> I know there was a contest a while ago to replace Beastie as the
> FreeBSD mascot/icon whatever (lord knows why) and was wondering why he
> was done away with and where a person would stand using him?=20
>=20
> Was it for some trademark/legal greedy reason we aren't allowed to use
> him anymore? Who is allowed to use him now? What does Beastie
> represent now?

The BSD Daemon has no name [0] ;-)

BTW, some answers to your questions are given in the FreeBSD logo design
competition announce [1], and on the page dedicated to the BSD daemon on
FreeBSD.org [2] (linked from [1]).

Regards,
Romain

References:
  0. http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/index.html
  1. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-announce/2005-February/=
000981.html
  2. http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html



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