It is named in honour of Jonas Borgström [0], who wrote Attic, from which Borg was forked.

[0] https://github.com/jborg

Borg? Hardly, there is already a Google product with the same name.

But more importantly, it is the name for a castle in several languages. So unless Paramamount is planning to sue a lot of very old places in Norway and other countries...

> there is already a Google product with the same name

Borg at Google is not a product per se, it's a internal tool/service. Pretty sure you can name internal tools whatever you want.

Google has a system called Borg, and they are fine.

Also, BorgBackup is not new; they have been around for a while.

My understanding was that the internal Borg was fine because it wasn't publicly available, versus this which is.

The word Borg itself I do not believe is trademarked.

I didn't think you could trademark someone's last name?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Borg

A search of borg in the patent office shows the name used a lot: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4806%3Av...

Why not?

If you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_(name) , the surname 'Apple' is used quite a bit.

Tell that to Uzi Nissan.

https://nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php

Wow...that sucks. If I ever bought anything Nissan Motor I would have to reconsider.

I hate how easily corruptible trademark/copyright/patent rules are