[hydra-dev] A name for hydra?

Jared Smith jsmith at digium.com
Fri Apr 2 11:01:23 CDT 2010


On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 08:59 -0400, David Ruggles wrote:
> As an aside, how did the name "Asterisk" come about?

>From what little I understand, it came about because it's the Linux
wildcard character (rm -rf *), as well as a character on the telephone
keypad.

Personally, I like keeping with the Asterisk/star theme and calling the
project something along the lines of "Star Field" or "Star Struck".

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Jared Smith
Digium, Inc.





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