Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 11:18:41 -0500 From: Larry Sica <lomifeh@earthlink.net> To: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg <listsub@401.cx> Cc: Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty@ene.asda.gr>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many? Message-ID: <15657FF0-F011-11D6-947F-000393A335A2@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <3DC69821.8010909@401.cx>
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On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 10:54 AM, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: >> I think you are missing the whole point here. Let me make it a little >> more clear to you. Suppose we ask this question to two different types >> of people "Hey, what do you think about Beastie? What does it remind >> you >> of?" and show them Beastie. First group is FreeBSD users or users that >> know this litle cute, and as you claim "daemon", second group is the >> the >> wide majority of people that know nothing about PCs and hardly even >> use >> Windblows. I wonder what do u think each group will respond to this >> question? >> Regards, >> Lefteris > > *snip* > > I just tested this on a very small (3 people) group that has no idea > what FreeBSD is, and hardly knows how to operate any kind of computer > other then to check their hotmail account. > 2 of them were girls, and both found the daemon cute. One of them > guessed it was the mascot for a sportsteam of some kind and the other > was pretty sure she had seen that mascot on TV, in some kind of > japanese cartoon. The third, a guy, guessed it was from a Counter > Strike or Quake clan or similar, but was in no way offended by it. > When I revealed what it actually was, one of the girls asked why a > computer OS used a demon as a logo. I explained that it was not a > demon but a daemon, but she didnt really seem to care. To her, it was > a demon, and if a OS wanted to have a demon as mascot it was not her > problem. None of them seemed offended or scared by the fact that > FreeBSD uses a daemon. > As an aside, i worked for a "Christian" company at one point and we used FreeBSD. No one there was offended by Beastie. It never even came up. --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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