From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 11 19:37:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from twwells.com (twwells.com [209.118.236.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8A1214CFE for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:37:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from news@twwells.com) Received: from news by twwells.com with local (Exim 1.71 #2) id 11EkMX-000NB2-00; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:13:01 -0400 From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about the mascot Message-ID: <7otaf8$2mps$1@twwells.com> References: <002801bee42e$4d5b2500$0201a8c0@allan.alerius.net> <37B21136.4E1D568@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:13:01 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <37B21136.4E1D568@gorean.org>, Doug wrote: : You are, quite simply, wrong. No one has said that. If you think you read : someone saying that, check again. What I have said, about 8 times now is : that the "little devil" makes some people uncomfortable and that : promotional materials without it would be a good thing. That's all, period. As I've told any number of people, in various contexts: [We, meaning the folks I was talking with at the time] aren't in the business of pandering to the emotional reactions of tiny segments of the potential customer base. To do so would dilute the effectiveness of our present efforts while diverting resources from where they could be more effectively spent. There just aren't enough people who'll shy away from the little devil to make the creation of a whole 'nother set of material worth the effort. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message