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by romange 1181 days ago
I made an honest mistake. While I saw DragonflyBSD, I didn't realize its prominence within the BSD community. I assumed that since our project only focuses on Linux, having a similar name in a different "namespace" wasn't a significant issue.
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Assuming you are the project lead, I would implore you to change the name. There are noble precedents in our industry E.g. Firebird -> Firefox.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_history#...