Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 16:24:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Jack Winslade <jsw@cywub.sitel.net> To: wjm@gate.net (William Melanson) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about the mascot Message-ID: <199908042124.WAA08816@cywub.sitel.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.03.9908041712090.65536-100000@navajo.gate.net> from "William Melanson" at Aug 4, 99 05:14:20 pm
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> % Why is it that the mascot of FreeBSD is a little devil? Some people > % might relate this to satanism or other evil things. I for one is > % bothered by this. Is it possible to change this to a more pleasing one > % similar to the penguin of Linux? > > Holy Smokes.... is this guy gonna open a can of worms? (Grabbing can of worms and walking toward can opener ... ;-) We can go back through history and trace that mascot at least 10 years or so, most notably on the cover of Leffler and McKusick. However (comma) I was recently involved in a discussion, a civil one, of the popularity of *BSD versus Linux. For some reason, Linux has become tres trendy, leaving *BSD far back in the dust of the popularity bandwagon. One possible reason is just that, the penguin is cuter and fuzzier than the devil. Not being of a persuasion that believes in the devil/satan/etc., I am not offended by it, but can see how others may be. If I were a FBSD marketroid, I would use the image to its advantage, promoting FBSD as 'lean and mean' like the little devil. FreeBSD, A Devil of a System !! Good day JSW To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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