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vram22 on April 27, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Fall of Eclipse (2016)

>Then IBM opensourced it as "Eclipse". This name was perhaps a pun on "Sun".

Yes, I had read that rumour too - that it implied the Eclipse of the Sun ...

Of course the Eclipse logo (last I checked) also implied that.

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