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I once worked for a company where due to a customer's religious sensitivities we had to change the name of a service from 'demon' to 'daemon' and remove an icon
by jahnu 11y ago
I once worked for a company where due to a customer's religious sensitivities we had to change the name of a service from 'demon' to 'daemon' and remove an icon featuring a cartoonish devil.
No big deal, just amusing.
- pavel_lishin 11y agoIsn't "daemon" the traditional spelling for those kinds of services, anyway?
- jahnu 11y agoSure. But I guess that was the joke.
- DanBC 11y agoThat's a common theme for some of the FreeBSD folks. Superstitious Users and the FreeBSD Logo: http://halfblog.net/2011/12/04/daemon-worship/ http://halfblog.net/2011/12/04/daemon-worship/ And the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3310063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3310063
- humanrebar 11y ago> No big deal, just amusing. Interestingly, there's a passage in the book of Romans about this sort of thing. That's pretty much the right attitude. The relationship with the person is more important than bickering over whether 'demon' is a big deal or not.