• Nsh@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    The creator of MySQL, MaxDB and MariaDB named them after his children My, Max and Maria, so why not

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      10 months ago

      after his children My

      I thought you were kidding, but his daughter is actually named “My”.

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        10 months ago

        It helps that it’s a name in another language (Finnish), where “my” isn’t a word, at all.