Devil Mascot

[Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract)]

Peter,

Very funny. You nearly made me spew coffee all over my monitor.

 

Edward,

As a committed Christian I have no problem whatsoever with the mascot. I
understand the obvious play on words between a daemon and a demon. Those
who would have problems with this mascot have other, deeper issues that
need dealt with. I think this quote says it all; "Those without a sense
of humor are at the mercy of the rest of us." I also agree with those
who have already mentioned that FreeBSD is not really driven by any
marketing schema. The reason I chose FreeBSD is because I found it
superior to Linux and Windoze, regardless of it's mascot.

 

 

 

Sincerely,

Thad Butterworth

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Message: 29

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:53:49 -0500

From: Peter Pauly <ppp at freeshell.org>

Subject: Re: Devil Mascot

To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org

Message-ID: <20040614195349.GA19556 at sdf.lonestar.org>

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I wonder if the FreeBSD daemon could be considered a "god"...

 

because he can "make world".

 

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> Edward Hendrie wrote:

> 

> >     Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot?

> 

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

> 

> > From a marketing

> > perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot.  There are
many people

> > of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying
FreeBSD

> > because they have religious objections to a product that is promoted
by a

> > devil.