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Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system by RIMR on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @11:34AM (#17304048)
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.

Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system by dpark on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @11:38AM (#17304081)
Well, this one is called Dragonfly, not Firefly, so the naming overlap is relevant.
Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system by wccrawford on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:31PM (#17304600)
Do you also get confused by Dragon Naturally Speaking and Firefox and their similarity to those 2 names?
Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system by dpark on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:18PM (#17305120)
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.
Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system by wccrawford on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:49PM (#17306352)
Dragonfly and Firefly are not the same word.
Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system by dpark on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @04:50PM (#17306818)
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.
Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system by cat199 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:12PM (#17305056)
Do you also realize that calling the browser Firefox was a rename from Firebird due to confusion with an unrelated RDBMS system?
Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system by dpark on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:21PM (#17305149)
And Firebird was a rename to avoid infringing on the name Phoenix because the owner of Phoenix BIOS was threatening a lawsuit.
Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system by yorwba on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:14PM (#17306108)
And https://firefox.org/ is still completely unrelated to the browser.