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I think you're taking the concept behind the name a little too literally... They're not going to collect one company per letter just so they can have an "alpha
by beaner 11y ago
I think you're taking the concept behind the name a little too literally...
They're not going to collect one company per letter just so they can have an "alphabet" of 26 companies. The name just implies that they have a collection, a variety, a spectrum of companies.
- DonHopkins 11y agoThe alphabet is better than planets because you can always throw in more Unicode letters, while those damn astronomers took away a perfectly good planet!
- beaner 11y agoI don't get it.
- DonHopkins 11y agoIt's hard for a company like Sun to have a collection, a variety, a spectrum of companies, when busy-body astronomers feel compelled to reclassify your favorite planet as a "dwarf" out from under you. http://www.cbronline.com/news/sun_microsystems_announces_pluto_a_raid_subsystem_for_its_sparcs http://www.cbronline.com/news/sun_microsystems_announces_plu... But Alphabet has a long way to go beyond the 26 English letters, before they run out of funny diacritical Unicode letters with umlauts, accents, slashes, ligatures and dingbats.
- beaner 11y agoRight, that's what I was saying. The point is obviously not to collect one company for each letter. When they have 5 companies that start with G, are you really going to look at them and say "LOL I TOLD YOU SO"? The name just means variety, not a specific naming plan.