Beastie/ how about Mozilla?

[Michael Nottebrock]

Scott Long wrote:

> Frank Mayhar wrote:
> 
>> Jon Noack wrote:

 > [Beasty-Bikeshed]

I'll just cut right to end of the bikeshed:

_Screw_ the mascot. In fact, screw all the mascots (plural). This is a free 
software project. FreeBSD can do with ANY logo and ANY mascot, and it could 
just as well do WITHOUT any logo and any mascot. Beasty is utterly irrelevant. 
So is Tux, or the OpenDarwin mascot or the OpenBSD Blowfish or the NetBSD 
Beastypile^W Flag.

The complaints of people being offended or annoyed by whatever mascot and logo 
we have are also utterly irrelevant. It's all open-source, you can easily 
patch out anything you don't like.

However, things start to become ugly when utterly irrelevant complaints about 
utterly irrelevant logos make committers disable USEFUL functionality, like 
the boot-menu. We NEED the boot-menu, we don't need any kind of logo in it. So 
please, Scott, put back the menu and just delete the ascii art or at least 
confirm that the menu is going to reappear in some way or the other.

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