Superstitious users and the FreeBSD logo

[Tom Limoncelli]

This is yet another reason why it was brilliant for Linux to have a
Penguin as their logo.  Up until then all Unix imagery was
counter-productive to wide adoption: It was mostly wizards (a reminder
that Unix is difficult to use and only understood by few) or devils
(which is just plain confusing to the 99.99% of the planet that hasn't
taken Operating Systems 101 in college).

This is not a new thing.  This story is probably older than a lot of
people on this mailing list:
http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/daemon.html

(and I heard Laura tell the story once in person)

Tom
P.S. Speaking of being old.... next week is the 25th Usenix LISA
conference.  Who's coming to Boston?  Will there be a BSD BoF?