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blackeyeblitzar ◴[] No.40219875[source]
It seems really distasteful to take the name of an important religious and cultural figure from a different country and appropriate it for some pet project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama

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labrador ◴[] No.40220329[source]
Except it has other meanings, not necessarily the Supreme Being. From the link you shared:

Rāma is a Vedic Sanskrit word with two contextual meanings. In one context, as found in Atharva Veda, as stated by Monier Monier-Williams, it means "dark, dark-colored, black" and is related to the term ratri, which means night. In another context in other Vedic texts, the word means "pleasing, delightful, charming, beautiful, lovely"

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HexDecOctBin ◴[] No.40220405[source]
And neither of these meanings are relevant to the project, nor have these meanings been widespread for at least last 2000 years.
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1. kaba0 ◴[] No.40220459[source]
It’s also the concatenation of two, extremely common syllables, so purely by chance one is ought to hit them. Like, where I’m from its the name of a margarine brand - is it also misappropriating?