Linux move to FreeBSD

[wizlayer]

On Saturday 02 July 2005 07:35 pm, sparxz at excite.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am a user of SUSE Linux, and I was thinking of
> trying out BSD. After reading as much information
> as I could about the three variants of BSD vs.
> Linux. On technical merit, I was very impressed.
>
> FreeBSD looks like a good stating place for me,
> but one think about FreeBSD makes me uncomfortable
> is the symbol/emblem that the OS uses. That is a "devil" !
>
> I would like to know if possible how this came about,
> and what thinking was behind it. From experience, I consider
> symbols to be very significant, Historically, psychologically
> and even spiritually.
>
> Best regards
>
> Mark
>
> PS. Please can u e-mail me on this e-mail sparxz at excite.com
> when an answer becomes available.
>
>

Oh, boy....  Here we go again...

No, not the Devil...  A daemon.  No, not a demon.  A Daemon, an 
invisible being not necessarily good and not necessarily evil, 
but has the potential of both...  In that sense, it is no more 
evil or good as you or I...  Only the potential is there.

And naturally, because FreeBSD is such a powerful system, if you 
use it for evil (which we are all capable of), it would be on us, 
not the daemon...  Heck, not even the "Devil" because the "Devil 
didn't make you do it..."  _You_ did it!  :)

This is getting old.  Maybe FreeBSD should turn membership-only 
(j/k but thinking of the gasps and grumbles of discontent).

Or maybe there should be a required visit at freebsd.com to the 
following link which explains it all:

http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html

So "unlearned" people will quit asking the same questions over and 
over on the quetsions list:

Hope that "clears your conscience..."  :D

WizLayer