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Another monkey project

Posted Feb 18, 2010 10:05 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
Parent article: Trust, but verify

Since we already have SeaMonkey, SpiderMonkey, TraceMonkey, GreaseMonkey, the WebMonkey site, and at least another dozen projects with 'monkey' in the name (not to mention Mono of course), I think it might be time to place a moratorium on any more project names in this vein. Who's co-ordinating these decisions, anyway?

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Posted Feb 18, 2010 12:20 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Infinitely many monkeys. They finished Shakespeare some eons ago and now have other plans.

Not enough monkey projects

Posted Feb 20, 2010 16:39 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

As everyone probably knows by now, and I accidentally found out only last week, this project must refer to Cracked.com's MonkeySphere, a popular account for Dunbar's number. As such it has a legitimate cause (i.e. a pop reference) for using that "Monkey" part. I wonder about where the fixation with monkeys inside Mozilla came from.