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It bothers me more than it should that the company behind it's called Andes technology, names project after cities, their chips after native animals, yet wasn't
by dietr1ch 1y ago
It bothers me more than it should that the company behind it's called Andes technology, names project after cities, their chips after native animals, yet wasn't founded in South America nor has a base or team over there.
- ljlolel 1y agoLike Amazon or Patagonia
- balamatom 1y agoIt's called appelomancy. Comes from "appelication". -Sent from my expecting someone to fly the Condor from Mysterious Cities of Gold into a datacenter
- unixhero 1y agoFor whom is this a problem?
- dietr1ch 1y agoIsn't this undisguised cultural appropriation? They are using it to try distance themselves from the already crowded Taiwanese and Chinese industry, but seem to hold no ties to South America other than probably indirect mining. I guess they felt they ran out of names to use, but it'd be cool to honour cultures beyond just stealing their names and symbols.
- dlcarrier 1y agoAs long as it isn't misappropriated, who cares? Countless companies in the Americas benefit from selling bubble tea, and now a Taiwanese company gets to benefit from a naming scheme. Neither exchange harms the other party, instead we all benefit from sharing our cultures. It's not like they're growing cherimoyas in Taiwan and trying to pass them off as Chilean grown, or anything fraudulent like that.