A lot of programmers in my dinky third-world country haven't heard of Python or Ruby - most folks here think web development begins with Java and ends with PHP.
That said, I think that CEO is full of shit.
That said, I think that CEO is full of shit.
I would guess that at some point one of the developers/sysadmins brought up the fact that their name conflicted with an open source programming language, and management choose to ignore them.
Tim confirmed that he'd not involved any technical staff
in the decisions he'd made about the Python product brand,
and told me he regretted that as it would probably have
helped him understand the likely reaction to his trademark
challenge.