Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:47:05 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: tdv94ped@cs.umu.se (Paul Everlund) Cc: JT32255@aol.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many? Message-ID: <200211041547.gA4Fl6v17712@clunix.cl.msu.edu> 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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