doubts about the freebsd devil

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Tue Sep 4 21:00:45 PDT 2007



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Pollywog
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 8:50 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: doubts about the freebsd devil
> 
> 
> 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 than the difference between a 
> toad and a 
> frog.

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 red sex
toy?

Ted


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