Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:10:50PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > >Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the > >FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up > >a rigged contest to attempt to convince the use

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-05 Thread Mikel King
On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:10 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up a rigged contest to attempt to convince the userbase that there was such a

RE: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erich Dollansky > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 9:11 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: Pollywog; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-04 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 04:10:50 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the > > FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up > > a rigged contest to attempt to convince the userbase

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-04 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up a rigged contest to attempt to convince the userbase that there was such a difference, in order to replace the logo with a round

RE: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pollywog > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 8:50 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: doubts about the freebsd devil > > > On Friday 31 August 2007 15:3

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 03:50:27PM +, Pollywog wrote: > On Friday 31 August 2007 15:32:26 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > There will also probably be loads of people replying to tell you > > that it is not a devil but a character representing a daemon that > > is a helpful sprite and that i

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 31 August 2007 15:32:26 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > There will also probably be loads of people replying to tell you > that it is not a devil but a character representing a daemon that > is a helpful sprite and that it is not a logo, but a mascot. I think that is much less different tha

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:53:50PM -0300, Nélio Mesquita wrote: > Hello to all! > Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a > history around it? There is so much history it would take you several days to read it all. Just look for stuff on 'Beastie' or 'Bsd' or other

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Nélio Mesquita on 08/31/07 06:44>> On 8/30/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Nélio Mesquita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello to all! Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a history around it? It's not a devil, it's a daemon, and there is plen

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Nélio Mesquita
On 8/30/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Nélio Mesquita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello to all! > > Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a > > history around it? > > It's not a devil, it's a daemon, and there is plenty of history: > http://en.wi

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-30 Thread Bill Moran
"Nélio Mesquita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello to all! > Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a > history around it? It's not a devil, it's a daemon, and there is plenty of history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28computer_software%29 -- Bill Moran h

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-30 Thread John Webster
--On Thursday, August 30, 2007 19:53:50 -0300 Nélio Mesquita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello to all! > Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a > history around it? > > Thank you! Sort of answers your question. (Implied and explicit.)

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-30 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Nélio Mesquita wrote: > Hello to all! > Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a > history around it? See www.beastie.com > > Thank you! -- Pietro Cerutti PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature