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Maybe it's a sort of Teutonic tradition to name things after yourself. e.g. Hetzner, ReiserFS.
by prima-facie 5y ago
Maybe it's a sort of Teutonic tradition to name things after yourself. e.g. Hetzner, ReiserFS.
- captainmuon 5y agoWell, there is also Linux, DebIan, Knoppix (Klaus Knopper, admittedly also a German)...
- prima-facie 5y agoLinus admitted that he only named one piece of software after himself and that was Git. Linux was a sort of half-hearted decision he only accepted as a last resort.
- kzrdude 5y agoLinus allegedly didn't want to name it for himself, but got that directory set up for him by a friend (Ari Lemmke)