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There is one area in which the Internet has had an effect perhaps more pronounced than all its other ramifications: software names. From Skype, to Ubuntu, to Greasemonkey, the young developers who currently stand astride computing technology’s leading edge seem to favor the off-the-wall, the punnish, and the pleasingly ethnic. Just which of those categories [...]

You gotta love John Dvorak, even if you hate him sometimes. I’ve been catching his stuff for years, first in Byte, then PC Mag, and now PC Mag online. Sometimes I agree with him, often I don’t. But in his rant in yesterday’s column I think he got it pretty much right. Photo editing software, [...]