On the random renaming: At the book signing I attended in Boston, someone asked Neal about the renaming of Linux to Finux. He responded that he probably didn't have to do it, but it was an "old writer's trick" to rename objects in your story so you were not bound by the actual abilities of their real-world counterparts.
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On the random renaming: At the book signing I attended in Boston, someone asked Neal about the renaming of Linux to Finux. He responded that he probably didn't have to do it, but it was an "old writer's trick" to rename objects in your story so you were not bound by the actual abilities of their real-world counterparts.