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Re: I'm scared and offended by your kfreebsd port. Sorry. Please help me feel better?

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Hi Christopher,

Christopher Chalmers <CChalmers-cc@conestogac.on.ca> writes:

> Hi Debian project!
>
> I had used Debian 6.5 and Debian 6.7 and tried Debian 7.0 – 7.2 And I
> liked them, but I found out that freebsd with the young devil mascot
> and a devil head icon, was part of Debian and it scared the sh#t out
> of me.

You appear to be judging things based on their outward appearance, while
not really looking into the details at all.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon

You'll notice that page is titled BSD _Daemon_, not BSD Devil.

If you read that page, you'll discover that Unix and thus Linux has long
running processes that are called "software daemons", that do the work
of keeping the system running properly.

This use of the word "daemon" comes from Greek mythology, as you can see
here:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(mythology)

and therefore has no relation to devils, or even to demons (except by
being a homophone).

The cartoon mascot is thus a visual pun, since it depicts a demon,
rather than a daemon.  The joke continues with the fact that the mascot
is called "Beastie" which is a homophone of BSD.

> Sent from Mail for Windows 10

I note that you apparently have no qualms about using software from
Microsoft, despite them being convicted repeat monopoly abusers:

  http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Microsoft-Ruled-a-Monopoly-Court-finds-firm-2899336.php
  http://newsok.com/article/3154388
  http://www.networkworld.com/article/2272627/applications/europe-charges-microsoft-with-abuse-of-monopoly-again.html
  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/technology/eu-fines-microsoft-over-browser.html

Might I suggest that you contemplate those facts, perhaps in conjunction
with Mathhew 7:18

  https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-7-18/

However, I'm not sure if that's going to make you feel any better.  Sorry.

Cheers, Phil.
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I'm scared and offended by your kfreebsd port. Sorry. Please help me  feel better? Christopher Chalmers <CChalmers-cc@conestogac.on.ca> - 2017-06-05 08:10 +0200
  Re: I'm scared and offended by your kfreebsd port. Sorry. Please help me feel better? Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2017-06-05 17:00 +0200

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