Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 02:11:40 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: cpghost@cordula.ws Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! Message-ID: <420FFACC.2020403@incubus.de> In-Reply-To: <20050209202922.GA18393@fw.farid-hajji.net> References: <e6575a3050209103214480161@mail.gmail.com> <420A6465.30402@sbcglobal.net> <20050209202922.GA18393@fw.farid-hajji.net>
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cpghost@cordula.ws wrote: > Nope. Beastie is a way of life. I'd be quite upset if it were dropped > for whatever reason. It is so intimately tied to FreeBSD that it would > be a PR disaster if it were to be changed. NetBSD never had a real The BSD daemon image stems from around 4.3BSD, or an even earlier release, not FreeBSD. It can therefore never be specific for the FreeBSD system, in the same way Ronald McDonald doesn't stand for the Big Mac alone, but rather for the entire company. In earlier years, before the general hype about Linux and *BSD, I've seen the image being used in presentations about Unix in general.
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