From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 4 11:40:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB97F37B404; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:40:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (12-232-206-8.client.attbi.com [12.232.206.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D43043E75; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:40:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA63654; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:31:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:31:41 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Lefteris Tsintjelis Cc: Paul Everlund , Juli Mallett , JT32255@aol.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many? In-Reply-To: <3DC68F57.97E736EF@ene.asda.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: The whole reason that Linux has the pinguin is that they were jealous of the BSD daemon and decided that they needed to find their own mascot. I still hear comments however like "But the BSD daemon's way cooler" from Linux people. The BSD daemon has significant historical significance and the number of people who would find it a problem is so statically insignificant that it's not worth abandonning our herritage for them. It's 1/ cute 2/ MEMORABLE 3/ relevant (if you know the history) 4/ Unique Sound slike a winner to me.. Believe me, the daemon is not going away any time soon, so let's save bandwidth... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message