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Blender: Automatic whole-program fuzzing (github.com/dvyukov)
11 points by ibobev on March 15, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



The naming choice is.. not wise.


Blender is a registered trademark (®) of the Blender Foundation in EU and USA. Maybe modify that a little. How about FuzzBlender.


Is it cover all usage of this word in program naming? Because there it usage seems based on association with a thing naming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender


The issue isn't the subtle details of the law. The issue is there is zero chance you'll show up in search rankings because of the strength of the blender association and there is a similarly almost 100% chance name confusion will hurt awareness of your product, for all the same reasons.

Blender is a great name, it's unfortunately already taken, and you're just hurting your project by pretending that's not the case, as the comments here indicate.


I had assumed this would be fuzzing the whole Blender 3D application.

Instead its a fuzzer named Blender.


I think name snark can go too far here sometimes, but this is on the order of “Powerpoint: Energy Use Profiling in your IDE”


Come on, have some respect for Blender, the little 3d modeler that could.




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