On Jan 5,  1:43am, Sean Davis wrote:
} On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 04:43:30 -0500, carnivorous@gmail.com
} > I think, some people had mentioned that the daemon is often times
} > recognized as a FreeBSD specific icon, rather than a universal BSD
} > symbol.
} 
} I've heard that, too. It sounds like total BS to me. The daemon was a
} BSD symbol before FreeBSD existed.

     Yeah, so?  Until the advent of BSD/386; FreeBSD; NetBSD; and a bit
later, OpenBSD; BSD was the purview of academia without much exposure
to the general populace.  Out of these, FreeBSD is probably the most
well known.  Heck, go to any book store with a serious computer book
section, and you'll find two or three books on FreeBSD (with daemons on
the cover) amongst the gazillion books on Linux.  This is what the
general populace sees.  The only people that know more are the ones
that care to dig a little deeper then what is thrust in front of their
faces (which is only a very small portion of the general populace).
Remember, that for any given field, what the general populace thinks
and what the people in the know know there is usually a pretty wide
gap.  Remember, also, that perception is everything.

}-- End of excerpt from Sean Davis