On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:36:36AM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote:
> Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> >
>
>
> >>Only my personal experience. In addition to not being
> >>comfortable with
> >>the BSD logo, a couple of the programmers here didn't like my
> >>Ouija-board mouse pad, because they associated it wi
Only my personal experience. In addition to not being
comfortable with
the BSD logo, a couple of the programmers here didn't like my
Ouija-board mouse pad, because they associated it with the occult, and
thus The Devil.
Man, you must have a hell of a lot of fun with these people. What
do they
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Only my personal experience. In addition to not being
comfortable with
the BSD logo, a couple of the programmers here didn't like my
Ouija-board mouse pad, because they associated it with the occult, and
thus The Devil.
Man, you must have a hell of a lot of fun with the
I love the, so called "evil" beastie but it's not like the idea of a new
logo will make the FreeBSD OS any different!
Here's a good view: Get over it... build a bridge... go write some
software or do something else *useful* that makes a real difference.
If you guy's, love beastie so much, get h
Bob Johnson writes:
> I work in an office largely populated by born-again Christians, and some
> of them very definitely object to the BSD logo. Even after I explained
> the "daemon" thing, they still didn't think BSD should use "The Devil"
> as its logo.
It doesn't help that some people use "d
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Johnson
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 3:45 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Cc: Jacob S
> Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such
> as
On Thursday 10 February 2005 06:00 pm, Mark A. Garcia wrote:
>
>
> I'd like to hear a story of a system administrator who has chosen not
> to use FreeBSD explicitly because of the logo. That would be way
> more entertaining. Everyone could learn more about human nature.
>
> -.mag
If you're tryi
Bob Johnson wrote:
I work in an office largely populated by born-again Christians, and
some of them very definitely object to the BSD logo. Even after I
explained the "daemon" thing, they still didn't think BSD should use
"The Devil" as its logo.
It IS because of "Bible thumpers". If it wer
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:31:30 -0600
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From: Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!
[...]
Maybe 'beastie' will turn away some potential users, and maybe it's not
"politically correct", and
At 5:27 PM -0500 2/10/05, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
On 02/10/05 03:31 PM, Jacob S sat at the `puter and typed:
And a very poor example, IMHO. Can you give any proof that it's a valid
example to say that Christians object to the use of the acronym "daemon"
in Unix-like operating systems? I have not be
Jacob S writes:
> And a very poor example, IMHO.
I look forward to seeing yours.
> Can you give any proof that it's a valid example to say that
> Christians object to the use of the acronym "daemon" in Unix-like
> operating systems? I have not been able to find any proof on this
> list, the 19 L
On 02/10/05 03:31 PM, Jacob S sat at the `puter and typed:
>
> And a very poor example, IMHO. Can you give any proof that it's a valid
> example to say that Christians object to the use of the acronym "daemon"
> in Unix-like operating systems? I have not been able to find any proof
> on this list,
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:25:32 +0100
Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Louis LeBlanc writes:
>
> > Neutrality is purely objective in this case (and many others).
> > Uninformed neutrality can be highly inflammatory. Beastie is only
> > considered inflammatory to those uninformed funda
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