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Free software has some glib naming conventions
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It's called Jellyfin because "streaming" is something water does,
The rest of it is diffcult to know for sure but fins guide you and jelly is flexible, and Jellyfin is a fork of Emby - so maybe they were going with "[e]N comes after [e]M alphabetically?"
Here's where the service was named:
https://github.com/joshuaboniface/Emby/issues/2
Good explanation. I'd say that's still a lot of processing for our noggins to quickly adapt to a framework of mind to comprehend all that to make sense of it.
I still like the name and it does make since after it's all spelled out.