Borland - well known for its development tools - drops a few million on a bunch of
otherwise unemployable English majors in an attempt to find a new name... hoping, for
some bizarre reason, that this will change everything. The sun will shine again,
Microsoft will be so blinded by the bright light of the "NEW NAME" that it will
immediately give up and hand the development tool market back to "NEW NAME". Of
course, the stupid fuckheads running Borland forgot one thing: Everyone knew Borland,
and many people still had fond memories of the quality software - something they
had obviously forgotten about when spending fortunes on picking names.
Spin on a little, and the language graduates return. And lo, they had spent
months nonchalantly flicking through dictionaries, until finally one of them
came up with:
INPRISE
A combination of INnovation and enterPRISE. Fucking cunts.
Even now Inprise will not completely dump this unbelievably stupid name
because some manager would lose face.
And now a company with a seriously cool name (and product) makes a similar
mistake in forgetting that IT'S THE CODE AND REPUTATION THAT REALLY MATTERS.
I can only hope that you guys didn't pay anyone to come up with Ximian,
'cause frankly... it's shite.
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Borland - well known for its development tools - drops a few million on a bunch of otherwise unemployable English majors in an attempt to find a new name... hoping, for some bizarre reason, that this will change everything. The sun will shine again, Microsoft will be so blinded by the bright light of the "NEW NAME" that it will immediately give up and hand the development tool market back to "NEW NAME". Of course, the stupid fuckheads running Borland forgot one thing: Everyone knew Borland, and many people still had fond memories of the quality software - something they had obviously forgotten about when spending fortunes on picking names.
Spin on a little, and the language graduates return. And lo, they had spent months nonchalantly flicking through dictionaries, until finally one of them came up with:
INPRISE
A combination of INnovation and enterPRISE. Fucking cunts.
Even now Inprise will not completely dump this unbelievably stupid name because some manager would lose face.
And now a company with a seriously cool name (and product) makes a similar mistake in forgetting that IT'S THE CODE AND REPUTATION THAT REALLY MATTERS. I can only hope that you guys didn't pay anyone to come up with Ximian, 'cause frankly... it's shite.
I think we should have a new moderation option - and that it should apply to stories:
Score -1, BEOWULF BAIT