alt Hacker NewsName changes are controversial. Nothing gets nerds going more than changing a project name so companies work better with OSS.
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Second hardest thing in CS besides cache invalidation and off by one errors....
True nerds name things properly in the first place. The liberal use of -wacom throughout project names and repositories is a consequence of the Wacom itch being scratched - and then that scratch becoming the base upon which Wacoms' competitors can participate. A true nerd would've skipped including the brand in a directory name, in the first place .. I bet these drivers started off being written by graphics designers, not nerds.
Yet name changes happen easily when legally forced. Wireshark, MariaDB, and LibreOffice.
just change the name to mocaW
Yes, I know, but that all just underscores what I said about it being emotional. Logically it's not only Wacom but for any tablet. It would do better with a new name as other competitors would help. But the emotional resistance to changing the name keeps those logical improvements form happening.