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angiolilloyesterday at 3:48 PM0 repliesview on HN

Does your forever limit apply to names besides "Asimov"?

There are a lot of companies and projects that have used the names of real people without that person's involvement or approval: Einstein, Tesla, Edison (besides the ones related to his company), Darwin, Beethoven, Mozart, Newton, Kepler, Galileo, Copernicus, Archimedes, Socrates...