Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 00:13:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Brown <mike@hyperreal.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux move to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20050705071336.26328.qmail@hyperreal.org> In-Reply-To: <20050703215922.GA9626@kongemord.krig.net>
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Bob Hall wrote: > The belief that guys with red skin, horns, pointy tails, and pitchforks > represent the devil is a European superstition, not a Christian > doctrine. There's no support for it in the Bible or the writings of the > church fathers. There is also no support, except among BSD fans, for horned, pointy-tailed, red-skinned creatures with pitchforks representing anything other than a li'l devil. Saying it represents an invisible, oft-benevolent 'daemon' has very little credibility when the mascot was clearly intended to look like what two-thirds of humanity would recognize as _el diablo_, albeit an awfully harmless, cartoony one. I think I will give one of my favorite input & control devices, the 'mouse', a mascot. It'll look a lot like this guy: http://images.google.com/images?q=mickey%20mouse ...but if anyone complains I'll just tell them it's clearly not an animate rodent, but is rather a stylized, anthropomorphic interpretation of a computer accessory. I'm sure the lawyers at Disney will see my point of view. Hey, if it works for Beastie the "daemon"... On a more serious note, am I the only one who has been getting hiccups of freebsd-questions mail from last year? I just got a bunch of traffic (including one of the previous incarnations of this abysmal Beastie logo non-debate) from late December, all posts that I had seen before.
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