Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system
by wccrawford on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:31PM
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Do you also get confused by Dragon Naturally Speaking and Firefox and their similarity to those 2 names?
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Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system
by dpark on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:18PM
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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
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Dragonfly and Firefly are not the same word.
Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system
by dpark on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @04:50PM
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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
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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
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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
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And https://firefox.org/ is still completely unrelated to the browser.