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Indeed. It's not a good sign that Netflix weren't aware of this very high-profile long-standing project with the same name. It suggests that they aren't much in
by randomsearch 11y ago
Indeed. It's not a good sign that Netflix weren't aware of this very high-profile long-standing project with the same name. It suggests that they aren't much in touch with the academic CS community.
- biot 11y agoShould names be globally unique? Spinnaker Software [0] was around in the early 1980s and can claim the throne for longest use of the name in the computer space. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinnaker_Software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinnaker_Software
- randomsearch 11y ago> Should names be globally unique? I didn't say that. I just think it's unlikely they would have chosen the name if they were aware of Manchester's project, which means they didn't know about it, which means they don't read much about CS research.