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Re:Firefox Nightly now plays Amazon.com Flash videos using S... by agumonkey on Friday February 13, 2015 @06:47AM (#9043858)
You're totally right, you're a pedant. JK, I was indeed confused, I don't know how to call a long chain of parallel associations like flash,fla -> flash gordon,alf -> gordon shumway -> shumway. Maybe it's a first.
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Re:Firefox Nightly now plays Amazon.com Flash videos using S... by pbhjpbhj on Friday February 13, 2015 @06:52AM (#9043879)
It's like stream of consciousness, I'd call it serial association rather than parallel. "Sui generis" maybe?

I'd be highly surprised if it were a new software naming method, it's definitely not a new thing of itself.

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Re:Firefox Nightly now plays Amazon.com Flash videos using S... by agumonkey on Friday February 13, 2015 @06:58AM (#9043891)
It was probably a sequence of thoughts, but the flash gordon | alf relationship is parallel, they're unrelated above the convergence point that is shumway.
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Re:Firefox Nightly now plays Amazon.com Flash videos using S... by cpeterso on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @03:21AM (#9061158)
There was another open-source Flash Player clone called "Gordon" (i.e. Flash Gordon). The founder of Gordon, Tobias Schneider, joined Mozilla to work on Shumway, the successor to Gordon.
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