Linux move to FreeBSD

[Mike Brown]

Bob Hall wrote:
> The belief that guys with red skin, horns, pointy tails, and pitchforks
> represent the devil is a European superstition, not a Christian
> doctrine. There's no support for it in the Bible or the writings of the
> church fathers.

There is also no support, except among BSD fans, for horned, pointy-tailed, 
red-skinned creatures with pitchforks representing anything other than a li'l 
devil. Saying it represents an invisible, oft-benevolent 'daemon' has very 
little credibility when the mascot was clearly intended to look like what 
two-thirds of humanity would recognize as _el diablo_, albeit an awfully
harmless, cartoony one.

I think I will give one of my favorite input & control devices, the 'mouse', a 
mascot. It'll look a lot like this guy:
http://images.google.com/images?q=mickey%20mouse 
...but if anyone complains I'll just tell them it's clearly not an animate 
rodent, but is rather a stylized, anthropomorphic interpretation of a computer 
accessory. I'm sure the lawyers at Disney will see my point of view. Hey, if
it works for Beastie the "daemon"...

On a more serious note, am I the only one who has been getting hiccups of 
freebsd-questions mail from last year? I just got a bunch of traffic 
(including one of the previous incarnations of this abysmal Beastie logo 
non-debate) from late December, all posts that I had seen before.