On: Sonobus: Open-source app for low latency peer-to-p...

[kennywinker]

I really hope we don't live in a world where latin prefixes can be trademarked. Are Micron and MicroSoft confounding names? What about Instagram and Instacart?

[airstrike → kennywinker]

It's more like Microsoft and Microbusoft or Instagram and Instagrabum

[fabbari → airstrike]

Well - not really, the common part between sonos and sonobus is the latin root [0] sono. Are we saying that now none can use sono as prefix for things relating to sound?

[0](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sono-)

[kennywinker → airstrike]

it's literally the exact same scenario:

latin prefix + single letter:

micro-n sono-s

latin prefix + short word:

micro-soft sono-bus