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I don't think his argument is "this name has cost you every customer," just "this name has cost you SOME customers." So I think his argument about the name is s

I don't think his argument is "this name has cost you every customer," just "this name has cost you SOME customers." So I think his argument about the name is stronger than yours - at my current job the Cockroach marketing emails we get are treated as much more of a joke than the ones from their competition, and it's solely because of the name.

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> I don't think his argument is "this name has cost you every customer," just "this name has cost you SOME customers." Likewise, I don't think my argument has anything to do with lost customers whatsoever. I am merely criticizing the argumentative technique of claiming that one's position is so unassailable that people who disagree simply don't exist. I have no attachment to the Cockroach name or product. The only horse I have in the race at all is that I hope the project changes the name just so I don't have to read the same debates every single time the database hits the HN front page.