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Re:Opus – an open source parallel corpus by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday August 15, 2021 @01:08AM (#28186409)
> while the coalition behind the Opus Codec chose to create a name collision around 2012.

They intentionally "chose" to create a collision? Or they picked a good name and inadvertently created a collision?

Re:Opus – an open source parallel corpus by Asraelite on Sunday August 15, 2021 @04:44AM (#28187189)
Impossible to know without asking the creators, but probably chose.

There are dozens of other things called Opus. Just check the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus

It would be pretty hard to choose that name without becoming aware of at least one of these. The creators most likely just deemed these other uses too obscure and unrelated to matter, which is fair because it's pretty hard to pick a good name that hasn't already been used somewhere.

Re:Opus – an open source parallel corpus by amelius on Sunday August 15, 2021 @05:50AM (#28187512)
Perhaps they wanted to be difficult to find using a Google search. Like the ".NET" framework.