No, their point isn’t that it’s a weird name that doesn’t line up with what the product does, their point is that cron is an already existing bit of software that does something else.
It’d be like if MS made a notes app called Steam or Google called a new camera app iTunes.
Minus the trademark infringement I guess.
kautau@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Even worse is that it’s close enough.
Like “recur by specific days but not by months cron”
Is a valid search for both things. Only one came out in 1975 and has had that name forever, and one decided it would be cool to hijack it