Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?

2002-11-04 Thread Lefteris Tsintjelis
Grow ups or not and as ridiculous as it may sound and probably is, these are both good points and they both could have effect on FreeBSD's popularity, the satan looking symbol and the hostility towards Berkeley. As for the symbol, well, I would expect it to look something more world wide

Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?

2002-11-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The traditional devil horns derive from goats, which if you have ever been around goats, seen how they can climb, eat all vegetation in sight, climb trees, get on roofs, etc., how kids gambol, is understandable. But it alienates so many. But as it alienates

Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?

2002-11-04 Thread Larry Sica
On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 03:28 AM, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: Grow ups or not and as ridiculous as it may sound and probably is, these are both good points and they both could have effect on FreeBSD's popularity, the satan looking symbol and the hostility towards Berkeley. As for the

[OT] Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?

2002-11-04 Thread joe
[snip] I sometimes wear my daemon T-shirt at my church. No problem. jerry My church drew the line at the linuxisforbitches logo :) http://www.linuxisforbitches.com Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?

2002-11-03 Thread JT32255
The traditional devil horns derive from goats, which if you have ever been around goats, seen how they can climb, eat all vegetation in sight, climb trees, get on roofs, etc., how kids gambol, is understandable. But it alienates so many. But as it alienates so many Christians, Jews and

Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?

2002-11-03 Thread Paul Everlund
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The traditional devil horns derive from goats, which if you have ever been around goats, seen how they can climb, eat all vegetation in sight, climb trees, get on roofs, etc., how kids gambol, is understandable. But it alienates so many. But as it alienates so many

Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?

2002-11-03 Thread Lee Nelson
JT32255 has a point. It's clear that we're not going to change how people react to the daemon logo. So, if advocacy is a goal, it makes sense to drop the daemon and come up with something more palatable to the general public. But a larger audience for FreeBSD may actually detract from its

Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?

2002-11-03 Thread Steve Tremblett
Please don't feed the troll :) + Lee Nelson wrote: | JT32255 has a point. | | It's clear that we're not going to change how people | react to the daemon logo. So, if advocacy is a goal, | it makes sense to drop the daemon and come up with | something more palatable to the general public.

Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?

2002-11-03 Thread Cliff Sarginson
I presume this is a joke. But I thought I would point out that daemon, the ancient greek word for what we know call demons, means guardian angel. Suggest if any more people want to mythologise about how many people do not use FreeBSD because of the scary demon that they come up with statistical

Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?

2002-11-03 Thread Christian Weisgerber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But as it alienates so many Christians, Jews and Muslims as a little Satan symbol, really limits the widespread use, public and tax paid support and availability of BSD. God has revealed to me that He does not consider our use of the daemon symbol as an outrage