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by prima-facie 1578 days ago
Maybe it's a sort of Teutonic tradition to name things after yourself. e.g. Hetzner, ReiserFS.
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captainmuon 1578 days ago
Well, there is also Linux, DebIan, Knoppix (Klaus Knopper, admittedly also a German)...
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prima-facie 1578 days ago
Linus 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.
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kzrdude 1578 days ago
Linus allegedly didn't want to name it for himself, but got that directory set up for him by a friend (Ari Lemmke)
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