From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 17: 0:47 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 95E16154AD for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:00:41 -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 RAA60624; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:00:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:00:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt011n65.san.rr.com To: Gary Kline Cc: Dutch Collins , Mitch Collinsworth , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about the mascot In-Reply-To: <19990810164220.A10879@athena.tera.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 Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:58:53PM -0400, Dutch Collins wrote: > > Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > That, or something similar! If it makes you feel better you can go ahead and belittle people who are put off by it. Knock yourself out. But the fact is, the demon/daemon mascot puts some people off. From a marketing standpoint a logo that makes X% of your target market uncomfortable (where X is actually, most everyone who doesn't already know what *bsd is) is bad for business. It doestn't matter WHY it's bad for business, or how morally superior you feel because you are above those considerations, it IS bad for business. 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. 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