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Why?
There is a very popular Anime with an MC named Maomao. My guess would be that the name change is to avoid cross traffic from people looking up info on the anime.
That’s a good reason! Thanks
Great idea to change original name to very overused name
Fruit names are acutally super common in FOSS - Ubuntu (and all those flavors), Apple, Raspberry Pi, Banana Pi, Orange Pi, Plum GSM, etc - probably because they’re memorable, culturally neutral and avoid trademark issues.
at just a glance I have some theories:
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the project was named after the creator. Maybe they wanted it to seem more community organized
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Food reference. Foss developers often name stuff after food, Idk why. Maybe cuz they like mangos (I do too).
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Dodges copyright or trademark issues. Certain things, like town names (wayland is a town in the US) are essentially uncopyrightable/trademarkable, so by naming your project after those you eliminate a whole host of potential legal issues.
These are just theories though. No reason is actually given, at least not that I could find based on 30s of searching.
Interesting 🤔 Thanks!
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To avoid appearing Chinese
No idea really. But I think it a better name.
Agreed
To avoid ambiguity with unrelated online content, the project has been renamed
Thanks 🙏🏼
