Objectively you are right. A name doesn’t mean anything.
But it’s 2026 - it’s delusional to still view human beings as rational creatures who make decisions or judgments on an objective, logical basis.
If there were an Android app that cured cancer, 20% of patients would still die waiting for an iOS port. The reality is that getting people to accept something en masse means tailoring it to their philistine, banal, pedestrian expectations.
A lot of free software has silly names, it’s part of the 80s/90s nerdy computing culture
Google too 🙃
Aww, I remember that. Back when it was fun.
There’s a difference between naming something silly and naming something after a well known fetish
Oh noes! A word!
So you’d use a software called “Child Molester 9000” so long as it’s FOSS and kinda replaces Photoshop?
Paedophilia isn’t a fetish, it’s a psychiatric disorder.
Objectively you are right. A name doesn’t mean anything.
But it’s 2026 - it’s delusional to still view human beings as rational creatures who make decisions or judgments on an objective, logical basis.
If there were an Android app that cured cancer, 20% of patients would still die waiting for an iOS port. The reality is that getting people to accept something en masse means tailoring it to their philistine, banal, pedestrian expectations.