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by sandworm101 3445 days ago
Honestly, i never linked the cisco logo to the goldengate. It looked like meters of an audio output or something else electronic, an o-scope. The proportions seem off, probably because i never see the bridge from the side.

Im betting they want to play down the link to the city name. "Frisco" is a week trademark because of its common use. Cisco is akin to the "Syfy" channel. You might win on the letters, but not the spoken sounds ... As oppossed to the famous canadian case of "MikeRoeSoft.com" where sound trumped letters.

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You win on letters, you lose on i18n. "Syfy" in Polish is plural of "syf", which means disorder, dirt, something ugly, or (probably also the origin of the word) syphilis.

Obviously, this made telling some friends about some shows I watched rather awkward. ;).

And that is why i read hn.