Ah, no :) We just had to get the domain and twitter handle and get some graphic design and site things to happen.
Technically, Ursula LeGuinn used it first -- though I still haven't read that particular book from her just yet. I am quite a fan of Ender's game though, and that's what I named Ansible for. Not so much the "long-distance part", but the part about controlling all the ships at once, at the end. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:21 AM, C. Morgan Hamill <[email protected]>wrote: > Excerpts from Michael DeHaan's message of 2014-01-28 21:08:17 -0500: > > When we started the company, Ansible wasn't quite available, so we named > > the company AnsibleWorks. We've finally arranged things so it was > possible > > to change that, and have done so,and we're pretty excited about being > able > > to make things simpler by dropping five letters and an extra syllable. > > Out of sheer curiosity, did you have to get permission from Orson Scott > Card or something? > -- > Morgan Hamill > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> CTO, AnsibleWorks, Inc. http://www.ansibleworks.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
