Logo competition (was: Re: Save the Demon!)

Dan Ponte dcp1990 at neptune.atopia.net
Mon Feb 14 14:27:08 PST 2005


On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:02:25PM +0100, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy:
> Mike Jakubik <mikej at rogers.com> wrote:
>  > Oliver Fromme said:
>  > > [...]
>  > > > I'm not seeing a problem here. Beastie is not a religious icon,
>  > > > not is it intended to be one.
>  > > 
>  > > Right -- but it looks like one.  And every now and then
>  > > there are people who are offended by it because of their
>  > > religious bias.
>  > 
>  > Boo Hoo! Use Linux then, or is the Penguin sacrilege to your religion too?
> 
> Personally I do not care, but there are people who do care,
> and we shouldn't be too arrogant or intolerant to ignore
> them.  There's no sane reason to scare them off to Linux.
And there's also no sane reason that they should refuse to use FreeBSD
because of a 20-year old cartoon graphic. Really, such kooks would only
give FreeBSD a bad name if they chose to use it.
-Dan
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