Can it be true? It appears that FreeBSD is going to run a design contest for a new logo. After reading through the announcement text it looks like this could be real.
I’ve been using FreeBSD for more than seven years and I have seen the discussion about people not liking the FreeBSD daemon come ago more times than I can remember. I bet you JKH is getting a good laugh out of this in his office over at Apple 🙂
UPDATE 2:30pm 09 Feb 2005: There is already a petition to save the daemon mascot. As of now it has 325 signatures.
UPDATE: 5:50am 10 Feb 2005: The logo contest site now indicates that they aren’t ready to do an official announcement.