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Oh hi Linus.

Here's the thing: there is no reason not to keep pointing out that these are just bad names. And by pointing that out every time, someone might just pay attention and give their tool a better name in the future, because they took heed and decided against calling their tool "cwnt" in favour of calling it "check-wnat". And you will never know it could have been called the "oh stop being so thin skinned" cwnt.

And as a bonus, folks don't have to guess at what it does, the name tells you. Imagine if fsck had just been called checkfs... it would have been both a better name and would have saved a lot of askubuntu/superuser/etc posts.



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