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I wonder how they picked the name, probably drawing random words from a bucket. We've gone from solidly exact names to vaguely descriptive ones, then to completely unrelated and now apparently to actively misleading.

(I'm one of the founders at Airplane.) It started as a reference to "lightweight control plane[0] for your company" - but also the domains were loosely available.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/network-layer/what-is-th...

Let's go back to US Steel and Standard Oil and Federated Power Corp

Unironically.

U40p.co

Like Apple and Google

I'll take it over another Xubiquiti

I was wondering if their name was influenced by Apache Airflow.

That would be more of a Downwash.dev

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