[erlang-questions] Coon - new tool for building Erlang packages, dependency management and deploying Erlang services

[Loïc Hoguin]

On 02/12/2018 05:13 PM, Fred Hebert wrote:> Loic can correct me if he's 
wrong, but his /Cowboy/ web server took its
> initial name because /cowboys kill apaches/ if I recall old conference 
> conversations. I think it's of poor taste, but so far Loic has not had 
> any fall out or enough offended people to make any change, and he did 
> build a successful business out of it. He made the call and ran with it.

Oversimplified of course but true. Context is important though, my 
knowledge of cowboys mostly comes from Lucky Luke and a few farwest 
movies, so the inspiration is fictional.

Nobody has had any problem with it.

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Loïc Hoguin
https://ninenines.eu