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Just a slight correction based on Wikipedia article for Cassandra:

"The meaning behind the name of Apache Cassandra". Retrieved 2016-07-19. Apache Cassandra is named after the Greek mythological prophet Cassandra. [...] Because of her beauty Apollo granted her the ability of prophecy. [...] When Cassandra of Troy refused Apollo, he put a curse on her so that all of her and her descendants' predictions would not be believed. [...] Cassandra is the cursed Oracle.

The link is broken but I assumed it was a pun on Oracle DB.

a very interesting topic , hope i can have your permission

Small typo on the Ubuntu and Debian entries.

And here's one for the GNU operating system:

The name “GNU” was chosen because it met a few requirements; first, it was a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix”, second, because it was a real word, and third, it was fun to say (or Sing) [1]

It'd be great if we could add reference links to each stories. 💯

I really enjoyed reading this list, so thanks for putting it together!

While I was reading I noticed a couple of small typos and the like. Would you have a problem with me making a pull request to fix the ones I noticed? In addition, I think I know of a few pieces of software that I could add to the list with sources on their naming.

I'm pretty sure the name for Chrome is because it has very minimal chrome compared to other browsers at the time. Sounds like the lead designed didn't know what browser chrome was.

Following MySQL is of course MariaDB, named after Montys younger daughter: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/why-is-the-software-called-mariadb/