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by icebraining 4343 days ago
Is it any worse than taking control of a surname? Every MacDonald is now indelibly linked to awful burgers. At least rocket engines don't feel shame.
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Yes, actually.

McDonald's was at least started by two guys with the surname McDonald. It is/was their company so they named it after themselves. That's no different than "Frank's Burger Stand", which is again completely different than writing a clone of GCC in javascript and then calling it Patriot or something.