FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

[Louis LeBlanc]

On 12/23/04 12:41 PM, Joshua Tinnin sat at the `puter and typed:
> On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:37 am, Stefan Farrenkopf 
> <sfarren at gwdg.de> wrote:
> > --On Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2004 18:04 Uhr +0100 Karol Kwiatkowski
> > <freebsd at orchid.homeunix.org> wrote:
> > > A bit OT, but to make things clear I'd like to point out it's not
> > > the devil. It's a daemon.
> > > BSD Daemon.
> >
> > Sure, you are right it's a daemon; I used "devil" because of it's
> > relation to (d)"evil".
> 
> How about change it to an eye on a pyramid?

Yeah!  Let's do THAT! LOL :)

> Frankly, this is a bit silly, and it's been beaten to death, but every 
> time it comes up it still strikes me as silly. The world does not 
> revolve around everyone's peculiar, individual sensibilites.

Thank you!  I couldn't have said it better myself.  Certainly not so
tactfully.

> You can't 
> please everyone - particularly not deeply religious people, and each 
> group is offended by different things - so it's not even worth playing 
> that game.

Thank you again!

> If you think Procter & Gamble are satanic for using a 
> particular symbol as their logo: 
> http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/procter.asp , fine, but don't 
> expect them to bend over backwards and change their logo because you 
> think so. If you are so sensitive as to be swayed by a logo that isn't 
> even meant to be offensive in the first place, and over technical 
> considerations, then chances are FreeBSD isn't for you, but thats just 
> MO.

Hear, Hear!

<SNIP LONG OT RANT>

Call me a skeptic, call me insensitive to religious superstition, but
I am not ignorant to the relevance of the logo, and I think the
loader, the website, and everything else about FreeBSD is on the right
track.

Jeez.

Ok, rest assured the snip above was long and way OT, but I need to
vent when I think Beastie is getting dissed.

Lou
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