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Comment by fcjr

2 hours ago

Pion is already the name of a very well established webrtc project: https://github.com/pion/webrtc

It's also a particle and a self-propelled gun. There's a limited number of short legible words.

  • I chose the name because of the particle.

    I sent a letter to the Soviet Union asking if they were ok with me using the name, never heard back!

    • > I sent a letter to the Soviet Union asking if they were ok with me using the name, never heard back!

      Please tell me you actually did this!

Yet another example of intellectual property maximization in action. Hacker News / Reddit style communities are very intellectual-property focused. It’s quite interesting to see. Back when I was young, communities like this were anti-IP.

Now most such forums are very pro IP with a maximalist view of copyright and, in this case, trademark. Fascinating to see this shift happen.