From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 13 20:48:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D74716A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 20:48:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from newmail.eltopia.com (newmail.eltopia.com [64.146.138.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CA8743D41 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 20:48:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from edwardmh@pwaccess.com) Received: from micronpctportgx (unverified [4.249.120.131]) by newmail.eltopia.com for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:48:52 -0700 From: "Edward Hendrie" To: Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:02:49 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:48:37 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Devil Mascot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 20:48:54 -0000 Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD because they have religious objections to a product that is promoted by a devil. You may think that is a small issue, but when you are trying to create market awareness you need a mascot that evokes simplicity and goodwill, not one that evokes evil and deception. Look at how MSN is marketing its ISP. They use characters dressed in harmless butterfly costumes. Linux, has done the same with its pudgy cute penguin. You might want to rethink your mascot. Edward Hendrie