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Why would you give your new software the same name as an established and widely used software?
They were exceptionally difficult to find to install the app. That alone will keep them from being successful. Add to that that the app is not particularly impressive... I'm not sure if their chances.
Maven is a yiddish word for understanding, or something similar. There's a few things that have been named after it, but as it's in the tech space for this social non-network, it definitely has the potential to be confusing.
Same goes for words in foreign languages. it just causes confusion. I like how eclipse went for “temurin” (anagram for runtime) for their OpenJDK distribution. no way to cause confusion.
Ask Amazon why they picked a name that was the same as a small publishing company that had been around for years and sued them into a smoking crater in the ground.