parody names

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Anon
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Joined: 10/11/2013

Company’s we don’t like.

Nvidia --> novideo
Sony --> Sueny
Skype --> $kype Any better?

got more?

oralfloss
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Joined: 06/20/2013

Some ones that RMS made:
The Amazon Swindle (swindles users into using proprietary software)
Digital Restrictions Management
The Apple iBad

Adrian Malacoda

I am a member!

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Joined: 12/26/2010

There's also the Crook, which is Barnes and Noble's competitor to the Swindle.

pouar
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Joined: 08/09/2013

I call Apple's stuff iCrap

salparadise
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Joined: 09/08/2013

Not so much companies I don't like, more 'just for a laugh'.

Slackwhere? Still used by literally dozens of people.

Fedupra Linux - just got it sorted? Just got used to the changes we introduced last time? Guess what...

USB - unbelievably slow bus

Midori - an ancient word meaning "oh man, the browser's crashed again"

ssdclickofdeath
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Joined: 05/18/2013

Midori crashes a lot on Windows, but not so much on Trisquel.

Anon
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Joined: 10/11/2013

NSA = National/Worldwide Insecurity Agency

shokin
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Joined: 03/01/2013

In French : Google => le goût de gueule (the taste of moothe)
FaceBook => Face de bouc (face of billy goat) / Unsafe book
Apple => poisoned apple
SACEM => Société des avares, consuméristes et enculeurs de mouches

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_des_auteurs,_compositeurs_et_%C3%A9diteurs_de_musique )

GNUsup
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Joined: 10/29/2013

NSA = Nationnal Spying Agency
PRISM = Paranoid Reckless Insane Spies Mind

That's those I found

roboq6
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Joined: 05/03/2013

Microsoft=Microsoft

Very good name for diaper company =)

pouar
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Joined: 08/09/2013

If you don't mind a vulgar joke, I thought Microsoft was named after their penis since it's both micro and soft