[LAC-Tech]

I don't get the Zeus or Thor bit. Of course our indo-european father of the daylight sky has likely killed a few mortals. But does that really stop people contributing to projects named after him? I've been using the Thunar file manager for years...

[kragen]

the joke is that when walter mitty writes a program and names it 'thor', he is in effect naming it after himself (a wish-fulfillment fantasy version of himself), just like when linus called his versioned blob store 'git', but in a less self-deprecating way