The strange history of IT company names
Ankit Sud has posted a list 
of the stories behind some top IT companies and brands.
You can read how RedHat got its name from a Cornell University lacrosse cap. Learn how apples are Steve Jobs’ favourite fruit and how he “threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 o’clock”. Find out - or even remember - that Hotmail was once called “HoTMaiL”.
Ponder how things would be if Intel had ended up being called “‘Moore Noyce”.
Marvel that the whole post, packed with pop-up clicksor ads, is ripped off without attribution from a longer list on day2day activities.
What is it with some Indian bloggers ? A cultural thing for which I should show more respect or something else?
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March 8th, 2006 at 3:18 am
The indian bloggers link is bad…I get a 404
March 8th, 2006 at 4:59 am
same here
Yeah, common to rip off writing it seems now adays… common for people without talent.
March 8th, 2006 at 5:06 am
Geeze, I do remember that! Maybe around the time I gave AOL the AsshOLe moniker. :)
March 8th, 2006 at 7:15 am
mike: Sorry about that. It was a bad internal link. Fixed now.
March 8th, 2006 at 7:52 am
Almost fixed:
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March 8th, 2006 at 8:50 am
I always distrust “quick fixes”.
Better to take things one step at a time :)
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:44 pm
You do realise that the longer list you refer too is also copied from Wikipedia which does permit copying of content. So your whole post is basically useless bickering.