From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 00:18:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F7216A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:18:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.cyclades.de (mail.cyclades.de [62.225.173.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914BB43D41 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:18:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mh@kernel32.de) Received: from pd9517f2a.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.81.127.42] helo=kernel32.de) by www.cyclades.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AmTrB-00037A-00; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:18:29 +0100 Message-ID: <401A133A.7020900@kernel32.de> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:18:02 +0100 From: Marian Hettwer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Pressey References: <20040130065605.9623.qmail@web12907.mail.yahoo.com> <20040130070435.GA12066@grover.logicsquad.net> <20040130000610.3809be06.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20040130000610.3809be06.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: cc: pldsoftlist@yahoo.com cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: about logo X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:18:46 -0000 Hej Chris, Chris Pressey wrote: >> >>It's not a devil. It's a daemon. >> >>http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html > > > But you have to admit, glib explanations notwithstanding, that our > beloved Beastie *is* a devil. > It may be a demon too. Not daemon, but demon. In Ferry Tales, often a demon is used instead of the devil himself. But devil equals demon in that case, so therefor, right, our Beastie is a devil ;) My own Opinion ! > I mean, I sincerely doubt that the ancient Greeks envisioned daemons to > be red-skinned horned things with pointy tails, carrying pitchforks. > true. > Whereas who can dispute that the modern devil image in western culture > *does* entail those features? > true again. Ferrytail beasts / demons entail those features too ;) > So I feel that there's a certain amount of sophistry in this > oft-repeated apologia - and it's beginning to annoy me just a little. > true too ... > Now, if anyone has a *problem* with Beastie being a devil, that's a > completely different issue... > correct :) My explanation is that it's only a picture of a unix daemon runnig with a fork. You have some unix words, and how to give these words a cute picture ? Right, paint a devil with a pitchfork - that's it. And let's call him Chuck, 'cause he's wearing Chuck All Stars shoes ;) Am I wrong ?! rgrds, Marian