Not sure if Ian Murdock had a say in the naming but his family was from Indiana.

giancarlostoro 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> OpenIndiana takes its name from Project Indiana, the internal codename for OpenSolaris at Sun Microsystems before Oracle’s acquisition of Sun in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIndiana#History

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tomwheeler 2 days ago | parent [-]

Ian Murdock, who grew up in Indiana, joined Sun Microsystems in early 2007 to lead Project OpenIndiana.

	▲	giancarlostoro 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, just thought the wikipedia kind of cleared that up, Ian Murdock was an interesting fellow.

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jeberle 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I think what's important is that the name matches on /ian/.