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There a tons of name conflicts for things that are more popular than the gopher protocol. If the creators wanted to avoid this they need to pick a unique name.

• treve 9y ago
  My pet peeve is Atom the protocol and Atom the text editor. They're obscuring a format and a protocol that's much more important for the web than another text editor is, and they're doing the world a disfavor as a result.
  • elinchrome 9y ago
    Even worse is when Justin Timberlake did that song "Cry Me A River", when there was already an excellent song by the same name. It just obscures the existing song, and does the world a disservice.
    • treve 9y ago
      Pretty rude way to disagree with someone. I'd appreciate any criticism, but not sure what I'm supposed to do with this comment, other than feeling bad.
      • kminehart 9y ago
        I'm getting the impression that he wasn't actually telling you to "cry him a river".
      • justbaker 9y ago
        perhaps, have a laugh?
  • edoceo 9y ago
    And I've been using Atom as my default username on local Linux installs since 2001. So now I invoke my user installed editor as /home/atom/opt/Atom/bin/atom And to check it's running? NP! Just use `ps -eF|grep -i atom` We need more letters