Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:53:12 -0500 From: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@icsmx.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Devil Mascot Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20040614105247.04ea8780@mail.icsmx.com> In-Reply-To: <20040614123329.GB1072@rtl.org> References: <PBEKIEKOFFNDMPHOGDIJKEHFCAAA.edwardmh@pwaccess.com> <PBEKIEKOFFNDMPHOGDIJKEHFCAAA.edwardmh@pwaccess.com>
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Hello all. We are proud of it. Period. At 08:33 a.m. 14/06/04 -0400, you wrote: >On 13/06/04 17:02 -0700, Edward Hendrie wrote: > > 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. > > > >What a ridiculous statement. Tell me, Edward, who ever made you the >mouthpiece for 'many people of various religious backgrounds'? > >The FreeBSD Daemon is a mascot, and that's all ; If FreeBSD is >promoted by a devil, then Linux is promoted by a penguin. > > > > 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. > > > >I suppose that the devil influenced the thousands of sysadmins who run >large network installations to go over to the dark side and install >FreeBSD. > > > > 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. > > > >I know that you are trolling, but I'm bored. If the butter fly costume >is sucjh a great thing, then why don't you leave here and go buy one. >Wear it to church and family reunions. > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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