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What’s in a name

By Dave F in Reader

Posted in language, the company, Linux, Microsoft on October 31, 2008 at 4:22 pm

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Did I mention we’d been bought out by another company some time ago? I think I may have ranted over the issue a few times ;-)

Anyway, we used to sell two products that shared some same code and did much the same. One was named after X (because it runs on Linux using X Windows) the other after windows because it runs on Windows.

The marketing guys at the new company decided they ought to have a streamlined name like “blah for windows” and

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