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If you get confused between a filesystem called HAMMER, and a file distribution system called Firefly, I don't know what to tell you. They are different things

by RIMR 8y ago

If you get confused between a filesystem called HAMMER, and a file distribution system called Firefly, I don't know what to tell you. They are different things with different names.

dpark 8y ago
Well, this one is called Dragonfly, not Firefly, so the naming overlap is relevant.
- wccrawford 8y ago
  Do you also get confused by Dragon Naturally Speaking and Firefox and their similarity to those 2 names?
  - cat199 8y ago
    Do you also realize that calling the browser Firefox was a rename from Firebird due to confusion with an unrelated RDBMS system?
    - dpark 8y ago
      And Firebird was a rename to avoid infringing on the name Phoenix because the owner of Phoenix BIOS was threatening a lawsuit.
      - yorwba 8y ago
        And https://firefox.org/ https://firefox.org/ is still completely unrelated to the browser.
  - dpark 8y ago
    These are literally two things with the name Dragonfly. I don’t particularly care about whether the shared name is confusing here but it is disingenuous to pretend that identical names are merely similar.
    - wccrawford 8y ago
      Dragonfly and Firefly are not the same word.
      - dpark 8y ago
        One of us is clearly missing something here. The two things I’m talking about are Dragonfly BSD and Alibaba’s Dragonfly file distribution system. Neither of these are named Firefly.
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