Personally, I enjoy our mascot Beastie, as well as the Beastie-influenced official logo. I also smile when I see Casper, Wendy andHotStuff. However, I also accept there are individuals who understand these symbols differently than me, and that I may be alienating them to my detriment. It seems consumer products need to be mindful of cultural differences, is FreeBSD different? A larger community and increased OS market share wouldn't be all that bad, would it?
I hope that those of you who believe in FreeBSD but with a personal conflict with the mascot or logo, band together and propose a complementary alternate symbol. I don't mean flooding the mail list (it's obvious we can do that on our own), I'm talking about difficult time-consuming organization, lobbying, and support gathering. For me, I hope Beastie endures forever - he our first and legacy mascot - but I also wouldn't object to one or two more officially sanctioned mascots and logos either. Dale Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: David Brodbeck <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:25 Subject: Re: BSD logo To: [email protected] > On Tue, July 27, 2010 3:09 pm, Chip Camden wrote: > > Quoth Paul Schmehl on Tuesday, 27 July 2010: > >> --On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 15:49:47 -0500 Reid Linnemann > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> >On final analysis, I think the OP should abandon any desire for > >> >FreeBSD in favor of this: http://pudge.net/jesux/ > >> > >> Sheesh. Now I really have seen everything. > > > > Not quite. Someone needs to come out with an OS named > Atheix, and > > another called Agnostix. Then we'll be complete. > > I tried Agnostix, but it's impossible to get support; every bug report > gets closed with a status of "not enough information." > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > [email protected]" ====================== Dale Scott, P.Eng. e-mail: [email protected] http://dalescott.shawwebspace.ca _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
