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		bitwize 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo I've heard the one that says much like Linux, Git is named after Linus himself.

vintermann 8 months ago [–]

That's what he says, and it's a sensible thing to say to not keep focus on old grudges, but people were really exasperated with Larry McVoy back in the day so I'm not sure it's entirely historically honest!

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