>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.
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
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
Anyone is free to have an opinion, including not paying any attention to idiots and intolerants.
- 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.
30 years ago it wasn't divisive nor a niche opinionated choice. Kinda the obvious choice. But I guess some people really want it to be [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon [2] https://www.ign.com/articles/someone-complained-to-ad-standa...
(not in a snarky way, I want the story!)
It's described a bit here.
I mean beastie is super cute and wears green sneakers. You'd have to be really hardcore religious like Amish to take that seriously and they abhor computers anyway :)
I like the new logo too. It's just a ball with two cones really.