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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"Who cares about religious Zealots...."
This has nothing - at least from my side - to do with any attchtement to beastie to do, even if I think he's really cool. What annoys the hell out of me is that they scrap a perfect mascot to please a bunch of ignorant idiots just to be politically correct. The zeal of which you speak is concerning tolerance, free speach and thougth. And don't give me any crap about it beeing tolerance to scrap beasty. If they can't stand him then they can stay away.