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Back in the 1990s-2000s, a lot of, I meant truly a lot of companies and informal devteams in Japan and China copied the Microsoft format, and named themselves xxx-soft (comparatively, I only remember a few US companies like PeopleSoft did the same), as if there was a law that says a software company must have "soft" in its name, like "Inc." or "Ltd."
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