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[–] [email protected] 227 points 8 months ago (13 children)

TIL Wayland is named after a town

[–] [email protected] 113 points 8 months ago (5 children)

so is dracut and weston.

i think that naming software after towns in Massachusetts is somekind of red hat in-joke.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It's even neater. The name of towns/cites cannot be trademarked. The safest thing you can do when naming a project is naming it after a town so you don't run into legal troubles in the future.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Who's going to take this as legal advice and name a project Apple?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/15sDygDQWBd8J9kUA

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