Bug 13696

What? You would like to change that little devil? 
What the heck is wrong with it. It's unique, cute and ingenious. It is NOT
evil. 

Whats with the info below? Just out of curiosity. 

Have a good day and please post the anwer back to the list. I can't beleive I
am sending mail to hotmail.com. 

On 11-Sep-99 gthalapp@hotmail.com wrote:
> 
>>Number:         13696
>>Category:       advocacy
>>Synopsis:       FreeBSD logo
>>Confidential:   no
>>Severity:       serious
>>Priority:       high
>>Responsible:    freebsd-advocacy
>>State:          open
>>Quarter:        
>>Keywords:       
>>Date-Required:
>>Class:          change-request
>>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>>Arrival-Date:   Sat Sep 11 04:30:01 PDT 1999
>>Closed-Date:
>>Last-Modified:
>>Originator:     Gene T George
>>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.8
>>Organization:
>>Environment:
>>Description:
> Everybody says that FreeBSD is fantastic and rock stable. I found that there
> is truth in it. But I am not pleased to see a devil's emblem to be used for
> FreeBSD logo.
>>How-To-Repeat:
> 
>>Fix:
> Change the logo to something professional.
> 
>>Release-Note:
>>Audit-Trail:
>>Unformatted:
> 
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Comment 2 bill fumerola 1999-09-11 22:58:02 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

1) Priority: High? You must have lots of time on your hands, but we don't. 
2) The daemon is not 'evil'. There are a million explanations that you will receieve 
however, I will simply point you to http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html 

Thank you. 

Comment 3 nik 1999-09-13 18:46:12 UTC

Yow.  Everyone's been taking grumpy pills recently.

Gene, you sent in this PR;

> >Number:         13696
> >Synopsis:       FreeBSD logo
> >Description:
> Everybody says that FreeBSD is fantastic and rock stable. I found that there is truth in it. But I am not pleased to see a devil's emblem to be used for FreeBSD logo.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> 
> >Fix:
> Change the logo to something professional.

This, basically, isn't going to happen, as other people have pointed 
out.  The little horned guy ("beastie") in the FreeBSD (and NetBSD,
OpenBSD, and quite possibly BSDi) logo has a long heritage with the
BSD operating system.

You can find a little more information about this at

    http://www.FreeBSD.org/copyright/daemon.html

which includes quotes, links to earlier pictures, and a company you can
buy stuffed daemon plushies from.

In the meantime, don't be surprised if this PR gets closed :-)

N
-- 
 [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
 non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
 the links.
    -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>