I don't think there are many people who will confuse an in-house load balancing service used at dropbox with a brokerage even if both are called Robinhood. Similarly, I don't think that people will confuse said brokerage with an old character of English folklore (and no I don't think it's the space that's important).
Context matters. There simply isn't a risk for meaningful confusion here. So what's the issue exactly?
I think it's quite easy to confuse the two if one is diagonally reading the HN frontpage and sees a headline that begins with "What's new with Robinhood [...]".
> I don't think that people will confuse said brokerage with an old character of English folklore
I don't know about that. Why do you think people would not link a financial company to the folklore character famous for redistributing money? That's kind of disingenuous claim to me.
When I first heard about it, I actually assumed it was a reverse Robin Hood by taking money from the poor to give back to the rich type of scheme.
Context matters. There simply isn't a risk for meaningful confusion here. So what's the issue exactly?