From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 12 20:14:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from twwells.com (twwells.com [209.118.236.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65B1A14CDE for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:14:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@twwells.com) Received: from bill by twwells.com with local (Exim 1.71 #2) id 11F7o3-0007A4-00; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 23:14:59 -0400 Subject: Re: Question about the mascot To: mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU (Mitch Collinsworth) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 23:14:59 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199908121621.AA006524865@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> from "Mitch Collinsworth" at Aug 12, 99 12:21:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 800 Message-Id: From: "T. William Wells" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >There just aren't enough people who'll shy away from the little > >devil to make the creation of a whole 'nother set of material > >worth the effort. > > Are you stating this as a fact, based on market research you can > reference? Or as an assumption based on opinion? Elementary logic: 1) Though I've been involved in the computer business for nearly 30 years, I haven't observed anyone who might have bought an operating system who'd also have rejected one because of a devilish mascot. This doesn't prove that such people don't exist; it does put a stringent upper bound on their numbers. 2) The burden of proof is always on the person who asserts "there exists". So, until someone does "marketing research" and shows that my observation is inaccurate, I can, and should, take it as fact. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message