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Who named the utilities suite "G.U.M."?

Under the heading "Career", the penultimate sentence of the second paragraph states "A collection of software utilities called Guy's Utilities for Macintosh (GUM), which was named after Guy Kawasaki, was published by After Hours Software in the early 1990s." (emphasis added) This is awkwardly written. It really isn't necessary to state that it was "named after Guy Kawasaki"; he is the only "Guy" in this article. Did After Hours name it "Guy's Utilities for Macintosh"? -or did Guy give it that name himself? That should be clarified. Either way, it would be sufficient to say that it was "named after him", or some such; the reader can easily infer who the "him" in question is. Also, in a chronologically-ordered biography, specifying the date at the end of the sentence isn't encyclopedic. The sentence should be re-ordered to be something like "In the early 1990s a collection of software utilities called..." Bricology (talk) 20:29, 21 May 2021 (UTC)