On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:41:12AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > The thought goes something like this: > > "Well, the mascot of ALL the BSD derivatives is a daemon, in various forms" > (and, I will note, they are quite adament about it *not* being a demon, > which is why the form is *always* a cartoony/stylized form) Pah, "demon" is just a corruption of "daemon" (should "daemon" be spelled with an "ae" ligature? if so, I think typography explains this orthographic shift). The only people I know of who make a distinction are the BSD people and the authors of the Dungeons & Dragons game system, who decided to have some neutral evil beasties to put in between the lawful evil devils and chaotic evil demons. Actually, I think daemons first showed up in the _Fiend Folio_, which means we have the British to thank for this confusion. ;-) Or maybe they showed up in a Gygax-authored dungeon module before being anthologized in the _Field Folio_, shifting the blame back to the U.S. :-) /me dons the mailing list charter cop uniform again and tasers himself Hey, if I keep up this self-flagellation, I'll end up a better Christian than those who object to my proposed naming scheme! Tee-hee. -- G. Branden Robinson | Fair use is irrelevant and Debian GNU/Linux | improper. branden@debian.org | -- Asst. U.S. Attorney Scott http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | Frewing, explaining the DMCA
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