From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 11 14:26:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from skipper.robotics.net (c697754-a.baden1.pa.home.com [24.1.42.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1F814E44 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:26:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nathan@robotics.net) Received: from localhost (nathan@localhost) by skipper.robotics.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14652; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:26:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from nathan@robotics.net) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:26:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Nathan Stratton To: Kenny Drobnack Cc: William Melanson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about the mascot In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Kenny Drobnack wrote: > I am a Christian, and do not find the daemon mascot offensive in the > least. And I came from the DOS/Windows environment, so I had no idea what > the daemon was. In fact, I got some funny looks at my Christian college > when i started talking about "demons" running in my computer. Some people > laughed and said "Windows sure seems like that sometimes". > maybe we should have a disclaimer or something "FreeBSD is not > satanic. This is a daemon, a helpful spiritual being, kind of like an > angel." Of course, people don't read README files, much less > disclaimers... > I do kind of like the idea of having some versions of things > (T-shits, stickers, the CD's) without the mascot. Of course, still keep > the ones with. That way, if the little devil on their software package > really bothers someone, they can get the one that doesn't have him. Dito, I also am a Christian and do think think it is a big deal at all. ><> Nathan Stratton Telecom & ISP Consulting http://www.robotics.net nathan@robotics.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message