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Maxim Dounin announces the freenginx project.

As such, starting from today, I will no longer participate in nginx development as run by F5. Instead, I’m starting an alternative project, which is going to be run by developers, and not corporate entities:

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

IMO he would have been better off reversing the letters to something like XNGIN2 or some other clever play on the old theme.

Besides the new name being problematic it's plain aweful.

Feels like Gentoo ==> Funtoo -- Gentoo is a infinitely better name IMO.