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It's one thing for a programmer not to know about the existence of Python, but it's another thing entirely for sysadmins not to know (their websites run Debian)
by signed0 14y ago
It's one thing for a programmer not to know about the existence of Python, but it's another thing entirely for sysadmins not to know (their websites run Debian). To make matters worse they are trying to develop their own cloud platform, so they would need somewhat more sophisticated sysadmins than if they were just hosting a simple PHP website.
I would guess that at some point one of the developers/sysadmins brought up the fact that their name conflicted with an open source programming language, and management choose to ignore them.
- qw 14y agoNo technical staff were consulted at all: Tim confirmed that he'd not involved any technical staff in the decisions he'd made about the Python product brand, and told me he regretted that as it would probably have helped him understand the likely reaction to his trademark challenge.
- gus_massa 14y agoIn a quick Google search http://www.google.com/search?q=python&pws=0 http://www.google.com/search?q=python&pws=0 (I hope I've killed personalization correctly.) the Python-language gets 9 of the first 10 places, and the Python-snake gets only one place and the news section at the bottom.