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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?
To: tdv94ped@cs.umu.se (Paul Everlund)
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:47:05 -0500 (EST)
Cc: JT32255@aol.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <3DC55F74.4000403@cs.umu.se> from "Paul Everlund" at Nov 03, 2002 06:40:04 PM
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> 
> JT32255@aol.com wrote:
> > The traditional devil horns derive from goats, which if you have ever been 
> > around goats, seen how they can climb, eat all vegetation in sight, climb 
> > trees, get on roofs, etc., how kids gambol, is understandable.  But it 
> > alienates so many.  But as it alienates so many Christians, Jews and Muslims 
> > as a little Satan symbol, really limits the widespread use, public and tax 
> > paid support and availability of BSD.  A better symbol might be the statue of 
> > liberty, or the creator of the first Library, Aristotle.  The Penguin symbol 
> > is LINUX' best advantage over BSD, not to mention all the public hostility 
> > towards Berkley.
> 
> Please read http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html.
> 
> And if the little cute daemon alienates Christians, Jews, Muslims or
> anyone else, my personal opinion is that they should grow up.

I sometimes wear my daemon T-shirt at my church.
No problem.

////jerry

> 
> Best regards,
> Paul
> 

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