Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 11:40:33 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Larry Sica <lomifeh@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty@ene.asda.gr>, "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@401.cx> Subject: Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many? Message-ID: <XFMail.20021104114033.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <15657FF0-F011-11D6-947F-000393A335A2@earthlink.net>
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On 04-Nov-2002 Larry Sica wrote: > > On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 10:54 AM, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg > wrote: > >> Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: >>> I think you are missing the whole point here. Let me make it a little >>> more clear to you. Suppose we ask this question to two different types >>> of people "Hey, what do you think about Beastie? What does it remind >>> you >>> of?" and show them Beastie. First group is FreeBSD users or users that >>> know this litle cute, and as you claim "daemon", second group is the >>> the >>> wide majority of people that know nothing about PCs and hardly even >>> use >>> Windblows. I wonder what do u think each group will respond to this >>> question? >>> Regards, >>> Lefteris >> >> *snip* >> >> I just tested this on a very small (3 people) group that has no idea >> what FreeBSD is, and hardly knows how to operate any kind of computer >> other then to check their hotmail account. >> 2 of them were girls, and both found the daemon cute. One of them >> guessed it was the mascot for a sportsteam of some kind and the other >> was pretty sure she had seen that mascot on TV, in some kind of >> japanese cartoon. The third, a guy, guessed it was from a Counter >> Strike or Quake clan or similar, but was in no way offended by it. >> When I revealed what it actually was, one of the girls asked why a >> computer OS used a demon as a logo. I explained that it was not a >> demon but a daemon, but she didnt really seem to care. To her, it was >> a demon, and if a OS wanted to have a demon as mascot it was not her >> problem. None of them seemed offended or scared by the fact that >> FreeBSD uses a daemon. >> > > As an aside, i worked for a "Christian" company at one point and we > used FreeBSD. No one there was offended by Beastie. It never even > came up. As another aside I'm a devout Christian and a core team member who grew up in a real "hick" place in southwest Virginia in the U.S. Do the math. :) Granted, I don't really go out of my way to wear my FreeBSD T-shirt's on Wednesday nights, but I don't completely not go out of my way either. I do get a few jokes about it sometimes, but people base their perceptions on me about what they know of my character, not the mascot of the OS I work on. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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