[LeFantome]

MySQL is named after the founder’s daughter—My ( pronounced me by the way ). He sold it to Oracle and then, because it was Open Source, he forked it to create MariaDB. The name of his other daughter is Maria.

[deafpolygon]

Wait what? The same guy who made MySQL sold it to Oracle, then forked THAT code, started a new company on the same codebase then now is going public?

[user_named]

It's not pronounced Me, it's not English. But let's excuse your americanism.

[unethical_ban]

No one I know had ever pronounced it Me. How did you come to the conclusion this non existent thing was an Americanism?

[gboone]

I think the reference is to the daughter's name, not the product. Previous discussion regarding name:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12203571

[unethical_ban]

Ah. I thought the OP was saying "Americans pronounce it 'me' and that is wrong".

They were saying "Americans pronounce it 'my' and that is wrong".

Got it.

[user_named]

It's neither. I'm saying you're too dumb to understand that your language doesn't cover every other language.