• kitnaht@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    42
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    10 days ago

    Thankfully, despite naming them like that, it doesn’t actually seem to have any real purpose. Apparently they just wanted to make sure that different companies making different libraries didn’t accidentally use the same name for their project…

    • Hawke@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      10 days ago

      That’s exactly the reason. And also no company is going through the bother to refactor that shit, so everything is named based on some other company 5 mergers and acquisitions ago.