How 10 Iconic Tech Products Got Their Names

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @06:33AM from the slash-dev-slash-random dept.

lgmac writes "Think Windows Azure is a stupid name? Ever wonder how iPod, BlackBerry and Twitter got their names? Author Tom Wailgum goes inside the process of creating tech product names that are cool but not exclusionary, marketable, and most of all, free of copyright and trademark gotchas. Here's the scoop on ten iconic tech products and how they got their monikers, plus a chat with the man responsible for naming Azure, BlackBerry, and more. (What's the one he wishes he'd named but didn't? Google.)"

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Re:Debian was ok with Firefox by prockcore · 2008-11-11 08:48 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Mozilla objected to Debian making a lot of changes to it and calling it Firefox.
Considering how badly Debian screwed up OpenSSH, I don't blame Mozilla one bit. Debian should stop fucking with software they don't understand.