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I think most Americans think of that as well. It’s even the first several Google search results for “ss”. Bad name choice.

Though we (Americans) didn’t get the fun “tulip” bit.

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Funny, in the US I just saw a car that was an “SS” model and I thought “Huh, apparently SS doesn’t immediately scream Nazis to Americans” (SS => Super Sport apparently, to Chevrolet)

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Yeah, the nazi secret police is still the first thing that comes to mind when most Americans hear/see “SS” without context.

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There’s so many poor names in FOSS but people refuse to change them out of attachment for history. One other example comes to mind: Gimp.

Basically, devs are terrible at naming things.

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Unique and Bad names are very memorable

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Like WSUS for patching windows machines, very sus indeed :)

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