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by combobyte 31 days ago
It was originally called "OpenClaude" before Anthropic told them to knock that off. Pretty sure "OpenClaw" was eventually picked just to be petty.
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mkl 31 days ago
No, it was Clawdbot, then Moltbot, then OpenClaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenClaw. It had the "claw" related lobster theme from early on.
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_0ffh 31 days ago
Maybe coupled with a nod to manus-mania?
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