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Is anyone actually offended by a mascot based on a joke about "Unix daemon"? Do they just not get the joke or are they really that sensitive? I imagine it's the

Is anyone actually offended by a mascot based on a joke about "Unix daemon"? Do they just not get the joke or are they really that sensitive? I imagine it's the same sort of person that opposes table top games like Dungeons & Dragons and shares out Chick tracts (often highly offensive and rude, ostensibly Christian, cartoon tracts denouncing Catholics, Jews, and Muslims, in particular, as well as other groups; we had someone leaving them in our office for a while).

fluoridation 3y ago
Apparently a tiny minority of people are bothered by it. I was looking for information about the logo a few weeks ago and stumbled upon this anecdote: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2011-November/006642.html https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2011-Novemb... >I just got a call from the owner of a hotel for which we provide hotspot service. She says that a guest spotted the "Powered by FreeBSD" logo at the bottom of the login page, and was offended; the guest was convinced that either we or the hotel management "worshipped the Devil" and refused to stay at the hotel unless the logo was removed.
- wkat4242 3y ago
  If you really search for it, you will always find someone offended by anything. Only a few years ago there was this German guy that bullied VS Code into removing their cutesy Santa hat which doesn't even have any religious context, it's originally a coca cola thing :') Anyway, having ubiquitous usage is not a goal of FreeBSD. People are free not to use it if they don't feel like it. I guess there's not much overlap in people being offended by penguins and those offended by daemons so I might have another suggestion :P
  - sph 3y ago
    What is truly laughable is Microsoft removing the Santa hat because of a lunatic. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268 Anyone is free to have an opinion, including not paying any attention to idiots and intolerants.
jen20 3y ago
A tale I have heard several times: - Company admits to using FreeBSD. - Christian groups who are shareholders complain at the execs - FreeBSD is no longer used at the company. CockroachDB has a similar naming problem, though that tends to be the execs themselves objecting.

fluoridation 3y ago

Apparently a tiny minority of people are bothered by it. I was looking for information about the logo a few weeks ago and stumbled upon this anecdote: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2011-November/006642.html https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2011-Novemb... >I just got a call from the owner of a hotel for which we provide hotspot service. She says that a guest spotted the "Powered by FreeBSD" logo at the bottom of the login page, and was offended; the guest was convinced that either we or the hotel management "worshipped the Devil" and refused to stay at the hotel unless the logo was removed.

wkat4242 3y ago
If you really search for it, you will always find someone offended by anything. Only a few years ago there was this German guy that bullied VS Code into removing their cutesy Santa hat which doesn't even have any religious context, it's originally a coca cola thing :') Anyway, having ubiquitous usage is not a goal of FreeBSD. People are free not to use it if they don't feel like it. I guess there's not much overlap in people being offended by penguins and those offended by daemons so I might have another suggestion :P
- sph 3y ago
  What is truly laughable is Microsoft removing the Santa hat because of a lunatic. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268 Anyone is free to have an opinion, including not paying any attention to idiots and intolerants.

jen20 3y ago

A tale I have heard several times: - Company admits to using FreeBSD. - Christian groups who are shareholders complain at the execs - FreeBSD is no longer used at the company. CockroachDB has a similar naming problem, though that tends to be the execs themselves objecting.