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Kind of tangential, but even here on HN you can see how awkward people get with naming their projects/products. Either "stealing" an already established name fr
by rathel 7y ago
Kind of tangential, but even here on HN you can see how awkward people get with naming their projects/products. Either "stealing" an already established name from a completely different field or something so generic it's hardly searchable on the interwebs.
- tomc1985 7y agoThat, or the name is some trainwreck of letters that vaguely resembles a word
- ghayes 7y agoI don’t believe most start-up get “stolen,” there’s just a limited set of words and many are in use in different fields. Plus trademark expressly allows different marks by industry. A recent example here was a screen share app sharing the name with “screen,” the Unix tool. But shouldn’t that be okay? Most people won’t be confused between the two.
- rathel 7y agoApparently it didn't take long for an example to appear: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22725529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22725529 Based on name you'd think this library is for fuzzing? No, it's for fuzzy string matching. A "y" at the end would have disambiguated that. Well, maybe not entirely, because there's still fuzzy logic, but that' 2 possibilities down from 3.