In case more people are interested, I originally posted the following to ruby-core: http://mid.gmane.org/[email protected]
Eric Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > zuerrong <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2010/12/10 Tony Arcieri <[email protected]>: > > > And Unicorns are fantastical mythical creatures! > > > > > yep that indicates it's not prepare for the actual use. > > There's no shiny website, commercial support, or even a web-based > bug tracker, so of course it's not ready for actual use! :> > > > Anyways, in case somebody wanted to know how I named it: > > I originally wanted to call it "Unicron", in honor of a track posted by > a Kiwi[1] many years ago to a Usenet group we frequented: > > http://unicorn.bogomips.org/unicron.mp3 > > I swapped the "ro" for "or" because: > a) it might be confused as a "cron"-workalike > b) I could get sued by whoever owns the rights to the name (Hasbro?) > > The "Uni" has two meanings: > 1) it signifies "one", being single-threaded compared to its ancestor > 2) it shares 3 characters with its intended platform: UNIX > > > Of course, unicorns are awesome, too :) It's also a constant > reminder to never take things too seriously ;> > > > [1] - It's been many years, but I could try getting in touch with him > if you guys like it :) > -- > Eric Wong _______________________________________________ Unicorn mailing list - [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-unicorn Do not quote signatures (like this one) or top post when replying
