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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years agoI’ve always been too lazy to look up the reason for the change of name. Today I did: https://www.linux.com/news/ethereal-changes-name-wireshark/ TLDR: Authors previous employer trademarked the Ethereal name on the Authors behalf, the author moved jobs and couldn’t negotiate the transfer to him - thus Wireshark was born.
I’ve always been too lazy to look up the reason for the change of name. Today I did: https://www.linux.com/news/ethereal-changes-name-wireshark/
TLDR: Authors previous employer trademarked the Ethereal name on the Authors behalf, the author moved jobs and couldn’t negotiate the transfer to him - thus Wireshark was born.