Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 9th Feb 2005 12:42 UTC, submitted by n0dez
Unfortunately, the cute FreeBSD daemon is sometimes treated with misunderstanding in the religious and cultural
context. That's why The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public competition for the new logo design. You can find the rules of the competition in this document. Update: There is now a petition to keep Beastie, however FreeBSD's own Robert Watson emailed us to inform us that they are "seeking a new logo, but not a new mascot", so that petition is really reduntant. Update 2: Rob Watson writes:
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Where can I sign the petition to keep Beastie?
From the FreeBSD website:
"Historically, we used a daemon character as mascot [1], and put it on our web site with "FreeBSD" text like as logo. This character sometimes treated with misunderstanding in the religious and cultural context."
But do we/they have to care about it? It think this decision is really really stupid. Beastie is one of the coolest logos i've ever seen. It's *UNIQUE*. Even without any text under the logo, you just know it has something to do with [Free]BSD. I think a lot of marketing boys are jealous they don't have such a logo.
No,no,no...