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by snogglethorpe 4147 days ago
As long as they consistently include the "vendor +" part of the name, then fine... But do they?

[This was a huge annoyance with NextStep-derived projects like gnustep... Because they started from a proprietary system developed in relative isolation, all the apps had super generic names, and culturally they were loathe to make them any less generic. This resulted in a big mess on systems where multiple desktop environments are supposed to live in relative harmony...]