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I looked it up, and Kotlin is an island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_Island) 1,000km north of Ukraine. Is
by inopinatus 9y ago
I looked it up, and Kotlin is an island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_Island) 1,000km north of Ukraine. Is it a case like Alcatraz, where the location has become idiomatically synonymous with the facilities?
- konart 9y agoKotlin is a place where https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt was founded. You can say that Kronstadt become idiomatically synonymous with the facilities. Not too sure about the Alcatraz, but Kronstadt is the pride of Russia (and I doubt many people would be happy to see it being compared to a prison-island, lol)
- alexvoda 9y agoI have no issues with Kronstadt. Kronstadt also is the germanic name of Brasov in Romania. Lovely city. There are probably many other Kronstadt's. It just means "Crown City". It's worth remembering that different names have different connotations to different people. And that different things may have the same name. If you are trying to market something you obviously have to keep in mind the connotation to the name to the target demographic. And if someone outside your target demographic complains about the name you probably don't care. On the other hand, in the land of open source those connotations are meaningless. Creators of open source tools don't really rely on marketing.