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by PowerBar 2104 days ago
For the sake of your users, please NEVER EVER name your brand or product after a generic word. It makes it nigh impossible for anyone to google search you or forums where people are solving problems.

For example, Firefox is a good name. It's unique but easy to spell and search for. Searching for "Firefox not refreshing" will usually return relevant results.

Cups is not a good, but you can eliminate most unrelated results by using "cupsd", "linux cups" or "cups print spooler" when searching for help.

Motion on the other hand is an absolutely horrible name. While it accurate describes what the software does (security camera motion detection), trying to troubleshoot the software is a PITA because "pets triggering motion" is absolutely useless as a search query and there isn't really a good way to eliminate everything on the internet related to moving pets.

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Apple is an exception.