[IP] more on Religious leaders warn of Apple Computer's "Satanic"daemon, Darwin ties

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:03:14 -0500
To: <dave@farber.net>
Subject: RE: [IP] Religious leaders warn of Apple Computer's
"Satanic"daemon, Darwin ties

Dave, this is almost certainly an April Fool's joke.

When I saw it on the Politech list this morning,
I checked Dobson's site, and found no reference to
it. Nor is there any reference on Fox News, and I
just rechecked both sites.

It is true that people in the BSD community have
encountered objections from religious extremists
to their 'daemon Beastie' logo, and one branch
(FreeBSD) is looking for a replacement (for
technical reasons, not because of Dobson).

See:
http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/announce.txt

Untangling the real news from the jokes on April 1
is sometimes difficult, since the real world keeps
serving up events which would never be plausible as
fiction.

Peter Trei


> just spotted this.. yikes. i used to live in colorado springs and this
> is spooky. please delete my email 'cuz i'm sending this from my work
> addr....
> 
> 
> DENVER, Co. -- Apple Computer is facing criticism over its Macintosh
> computers from an unusual source: religious conservatives.
> 
> They're upset about products from the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer
> maker being associated with a logo of a two-horned red devil.

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