From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 12 15:46:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDB1814DD1 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:46:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA83335; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:45:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:45:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt011n65.san.rr.com To: Roelof Osinga Cc: Gary Kline , Dutch Collins , Mitch Collinsworth , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about the mascot In-Reply-To: <37B32E58.B7BE379D@nisser.com> 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 Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Roelof Osinga wrote: > Doug wrote: > > All that being said, I realize fully that no one on this list > > cares. FreeBSD is a hobby OS, by and for the developers. That's been > > stated many times on the list recently. However, there is someone who's > > trying to make some $$ of FreeBSD, namely walnut creek, so I occasionaly > > point out that there are some people in the "freebsd community" who would > > like to have some promotional material that doesn't have "little devils" > > on it. Maybe someday they will listen, maybe not. But it makes ME feel > > better to say it. > > Maybe, maybe not. If you take Walnut Creek seriously then also recognize > the fact that they display the daemon mascotte wherever they can even though > there is no need for them to do so. I see it on freebsd stuff, and on the main "home" page for the site, but I don't see it anywhere else. > It also assumes that WC is marketing it aggressively and solely for > profit. Maybe they have other reasons? Whatever other reasons they may or may not have, they are a business and they are interested in making a profit, preferably the biggest profit possible. > Also, would it be right to cater to the uptight community? LOL I think this question typifies best the stupidity of the whole debate. You and your compatriots see the very possibility of FreeBSD stuff without chuckie as a threat to your bad boy, thumbing nose at society hacker image. It would be funny if it weren't so sad. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message