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I thought this was about the company that makes the PDF reader. If there's a way to disambiguate the title that would be nice.

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Yeah, I had no idea there was another company by virtually the same name. A little disambiguation would be nice.

I disagree with the notion that they're ambiguous at all. Foxit and Fox-IT have quite a noticeable difference in their names, IMO. (although they do have the same letters, so I get your point)

Would a screen reader pronounce it as “fox dash it” or “fox it” for both? In my mind I read “fox it” without the dash and thought it was the PDF company.

Which was really weird trying to wrap my head around how they could discover an issue like this so quickly.

> I disagree with the notion that they're ambiguous at all.

I mean, it clearly confused me and a lot of other people as well, so I'm confused what this means.

It's like reading Vm-Ware instead of VMWare. People would generally think they're referring to the same company unless they've heard of both.

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