On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:31:40AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > This has come up 100000000 times. It's simply not going to happen because the > beastie has too much historical significance. It's a matter of pride that the > beastie mascot has more history than the Linux penguin and the Microshit > butterfly put together. Besides, he wasn't designed to be "market friendly", > he was designed to be a technical pun (he's not a devil, he's a daemon) > > There are wild, baseless predictions that the world will reject FreeBSD because > of the beastie every 6 months or so. Aside from the fact that I don't believe > it, it simply doesn't bear out in reality. There are more people hijacking the > beastie to use as a logo for other things than I can keep track of. I've seen > more renditions of the beastie in artwork than both the penguin and the > butterfly combined. The simple fact is that _most_ people like the beastie, > and the few who are horribly offended by it don't seem to be significant in any > way. > Actually, it's hard to tell if they're hijacking beastie or Sparkie, the Arizona State Sun Devil. I understand that Sparkie was done by a Disney animator, but I don't know when he was born. He easily goes back to the early seventies.
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