Please don't feed the troll :) +---- Lee Nelson wrote: | JT32255 has a point. | | It's clear that we're not going to change how people | react to the daemon logo. So, if advocacy is a goal, | it makes sense to drop the daemon and come up with | something more palatable to the general public. | | But a larger audience for FreeBSD may actually | detract from its usefulness. FreeBSD currently does | not suffer from the "kitchen sink" problem that Linux | has with its kerrnel. And as a result we don't have | kernel patches for critical bugs every couple of weeks. | | Also, bringing FreeBSD to the masses would divert | effort away from it's current goals of stability and | correctness. Just look at what Red Hat and Mandrake | have done to Linux. | | -Lee | | 11/3/02 12:40:04 PM, Paul Everlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | >[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. | > | >Take care and I whish you a nice day! | > | >Best regards, | >Paul | > | > | > | >To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message | > | > | | | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message | +---end quoted text---
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