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Re:Open-sourcing Sonar, a new extensible debugging tool by qznc on Monday June 11, 2018 @01:48PM (#17286606)
Why not? Google renames every internal tool they release as well. E.g. Blaze -> Bazel and Rietveld -> Gerrit.
Re:Open-sourcing Sonar, a new extensible debugging tool by cjhopman on Monday June 11, 2018 @02:09PM (#17286790)
> Rietveld -> Gerrit

That's a bad example. Gerrit is not a new name for Reitveld, it's a totally new implementation (with similar inspiration). And both of those were publicly released under those names.

Your underlying point is quite true, though.