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Re:'Sin free Facebook' attracts thousands by jahnu on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:47AM (#9839934)
I once worked for a company where due to a customer's religious sensitivities we had to change the name of a service from 'demon' to 'daemon' and remove an icon featuring a cartoonish devil.

No big deal, just amusing.

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Re:'Sin free Facebook' attracts thousands by DanBC on Monday July 06, 2015 @12:12PM (#9840155)
That's a common theme for some of the FreeBSD folks.

Superstitious Users and the FreeBSD Logo: http://halfblog.net/2011/12/04/daemon-worship/

And the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3310063

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Re:'Sin free Facebook' attracts thousands by pavel_lishin on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:52AM (#9839987)
Isn't "daemon" the traditional spelling for those kinds of services, anyway?
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Re:'Sin free Facebook' attracts thousands by jahnu on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:56AM (#9840016)
Sure. But I guess that was the joke.
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Re:'Sin free Facebook' attracts thousands by humanrebar on Monday July 06, 2015 @12:49PM (#9840405)
> No big deal, just amusing.

Interestingly, there's a passage in the book of Romans about this sort of thing. That's pretty much the right attitude. The relationship with the person is more important than bickering over whether 'demon' is a big deal or not.

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