Devil Mascot

[Greg Pavelcak]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:31:40AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> This has come up 100000000 times.  It's simply not going to happen because the
> beastie has too much historical significance.  It's a matter of pride that the
> beastie mascot has more history than the Linux penguin and the Microshit
> butterfly put together.  Besides, he wasn't designed to be "market friendly",
> he was designed to be a technical pun (he's not a devil, he's a daemon)
> 
> There are wild, baseless predictions that the world will reject FreeBSD because
> of the beastie every 6 months or so.  Aside from the fact that I don't believe
> it, it simply doesn't bear out in reality.  There are more people hijacking the
> beastie to use as a logo for other things than I can keep track of.  I've seen
> more renditions of the beastie in artwork than both the penguin and the
> butterfly combined.  The simple fact is that _most_ people like the beastie,
> and the few who are horribly offended by it don't seem to be significant in any
> way.
> 
Actually, it's hard to tell if they're hijacking beastie or Sparkie, the
Arizona State Sun Devil. I understand that Sparkie was done by a Disney
animator, but I don't know when he was born. He easily goes back to the
early seventies.

Greg