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When I was a young child my family had a "Dirt Devil" brand vacuum cleaner. My mother put some masking tape over the "Devil" part of the vacuum's logo because she was uncomfortable with the word. She certainly wouldn't do the same today, but just to be clear, FreeBSD isn't singled out as much as you think.


Wow, what a story. Thank you for sharing that.

Did your mother have any say in the acquisition of the vacuum, or was it a hand-me-down or something?

I take it she didn't write a letter to Dirt Devil complaining that she had been "abused" by being exposed to the word, though?




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