From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 10:59:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fellspt.charm.net (fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E379D14F09 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:59:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dutch@charm.net) Received: from charm.net (coretel-116-130.charm.net [209.143.116.130]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA17905; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:59:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37B0685D.894F7A82@charm.net> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:58:53 -0400 From: Dutch Collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: Doug , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about the mascot References: <199908101725.AA277355913@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > >Inre > >the mascot issue, it was acknowledged in a prior round of this debate that > >some promotional materials sans "devils" would be a good idea, but I've > >never seen any produced. Personally, I know that freebsd is not demonic, > >however I won't display FreeBSD stuff with devils on it for fear of > >confusing people who don't share our level of "sophistication" with > >regards to obscure greek mysticism. > > Funny, I've done the same thing. I have one really die-hard unix-forever > user who was so excited when he learned I was putting FreeBSD on all our > new servers rather than NT. When he saw the stickers that came in the > WC book/CD package he wanted me to be sure to put then on all the servers, > just to make sure everyone knew they weren't running an M$ OS. I looked > at all the "cute little devils", rolled my eyes, and tossed them aside. > Sure one can play word games to explain it away, but when people look at > that symbol they see a devil, however cute he may be. Few people around > have been around long enough to know the first thing about unix lineage > and it gets fewer every year. > > Traditional as it may be, I feel the "cute little devil" was an > unfortunate mascot choice and I support the idea of producing some > promotional materials without his image on them. Meanwhile, like Doug > I am not displaying the current ones. > > -Mitch argh. Does the Bell Curve invert when the population reaches a certain point. Plus, Corel Linux is out.-d To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message