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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i am with you guys that are saying the current logo should be kept. are there any BSD users complaining about the logo is thought to have some kind of relations to their religion? religion is just religion. logo is just logo. i am quite sick of religion, especially the religion which makes people to react like this! (btw, out of the topic, without a doubt, it would be much much much worse in korea because quite a lot of christians in korea are just totally mad about their religion which caused me to hate :p sorry to koreans but they really are!)
i really like daemon. cute, unique and cool! And imho, a daemon sticker on the pc case would be much better looking than the penguin sticker on it. i simply love it. i hope that daemon would survive.