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The FreeBSD Project recently announced a public competition to design a new Project logo.

This appears to be driven largely by a desire to become overly politically correct. As per the competition statement (http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/announce.txt):

"Historically, the FreeBSD Project have used a characterized daemon as a mascot, and displayed it on our web site with the text "FreeBSD" as our logo. This character sometimes treated with misinterpreted in the religious and cultural context. And this daemon character seems cute from somebody's point of view, but somebody may think which does not suit for the professional products to indicate that are using the FreeBSD inside. So, we decide to call for a new logo design which is identifiable as the Project's logo, can be used on the professional products, and is very cool :-)"

Indeed, Beastie is a mascot, nothing more. Making a change due to the whims of a few selfish people with vested religious interests is not a good thing, and definitely not 'cool' for the FreeBSD community. Such an action sends a message to the these few that their concern was correct, and justifies their actions. This is not the case, and sets a dangerous precedent.

The goal of this petition is to collect enough votes to send a message to the FreeBSD Project administrators that they keep our mascot -- modernize the image, change it, update it, but do not replace it. After all, the FreeBSD Project is driven by the community, and this decision is no different in nature.

Please vote.

2527 Signatures

  • William Z
  • Michel C
    • Comments
    • nonsense
  • Brett H
  • Spratt_
    • Comments
    • Long Live the BSD Deamon
  • Christophe T
  • Daniel
  • Brandon F
    • Comments
    • Long live beastie!
  • Erich D
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    • This is like Coca Cola would change its logo to straight stripes.
  • Ryan F
  • Nimer
  • Derek W
  • Alexandre
    • Comments
    • dont kill beastie!
  • Chris R
  • Ech
  • stephen p
  • Jonathan C. P
  • Kevin W
  • Georges K
  • James F
  • Edgar da R
  • talonz
    • Comments
    • beastie is the man
  • Matt K
  • Julio R
  • Val
    • Comments
    • Why the hell not
  • Zachary D
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    • I love beastie!
  • John R
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    • Keep Beastie!
  • Phil D
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    • What're you going to do, change what we call "daemons" too?
  • Avery S
    • Comments
    • Beastie.
  • Lachlan M
  • KC B
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    • 666
  • Mike R
  • Pete F
  • Tristan Mc L
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    • В
  • Miguel Angel Villa G
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    • no change beastie you daemon its genial... | no cambien el logo beastie su demonio es genial
  • Doug M
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    • please save the freebsd daemon he is my favorite logo :)
  • John C
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    • IF it not F*K'd DONT fix it
  • Steve
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    • Sure.. make all our T-Shirts useless... thanks.
  • Ted M
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    • My book has the FreeBSD demon on the cover and I never got a single complaint from anyone about it.
  • Paul
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    • Please save Chucky the daemon!
  • Zac
  • s33r
  • Jim N
  • Russell D
  • Balakrishnan
  • Theodore B
  • arvind r
  • Wei C
  • xx
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    • xxx
  • Luis Mario M