Is the "Be" significant? (Re: The State of Python)

[Guido van Rossum]

Greg Ewing writes:
> By the way, does BeOpen have anything to do with
> the BeOS people? If not, it would seem to be a
> rather confusing choice of name.

No, we're not related.  BeOpen is to be read as "be open" (as in "open
to open source").  If anything, "Be" made a rather confusing choice of
name.  For example, Google tells me, when I type "Be" in their search
box:

  "Be" is a very common word and was not included in your search.

(To search for Be in Google, you have to type +Be; then www.be.com is
the first hit.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)