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'm a born again Christian, but I'm not a religious zealot. But I think it's completely unnecessary for them to change their logo due to religious zealotry. I kinda doubt that's the *real* reason. I rather doubt there are any Churches or Christians up in arms about the beastie logo. And even if there are a few, are there really enough to justify a logo change? How many Churches even know about FreeBSD, much less care enough about it to cause a stir?
There has to be more to the story than this.