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by natehouk 4730 days ago
Agreed.

It makes even more sense when you consider the name of the program "prism" is an object that's capable of splitting light into it's colorful components, i.e. decoding the data streams into visible readable more colorful data streams. Each company is a color exposed by prism.

It's not an acronym. It's a play on words.