I… I’m sorry to hear that. Wow. That is shockingly bad.
Seriously, this is why we have trademarks. If Anaconda and Conda (a made-up word that only makes sense as a nickname for Anaconda and thus sounds like it’s the same thing) are two projects by different entities, then whoever came second needs to change their name, and whoever came first should sue them to force them. Footguns like this should not be allowed to exist.
It's not like they're entirely separate and unrelated things. Anaconda is a company that created a program called Conda which can connect to various "channels" to get packages, and initially the main one was the Anaconda channel. Conda was open source but initially its development was all done by Anaconda. Gradually the Conda program was separated out and development was taken over by a community team. Also there is now conda-forge which is a community-run channel that you can use instead of the Anaconda one. And then there is also Mamba which is basically a faster implementation of Conda. That's why there's the awkward naming. It's not like there are competing groups with similar names, it's just things that started off being named similarly because they were built at one company, but gradually the pieces got separated off and moved to community maintenance.
Next to the Anaconda/conda/mamba, you forgot micromamba.
Anaconda suddendly increased the licensing fees like Broadcom did with VMWare, many companies stopped using it because of the sudden increase in costs.
https://blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/anaconda-licensing-change... https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda_puts_the_squ...
Conda was made by Anaconda, there's no one to sue, chromium vs Chrome