It’s not a linguistic coincidence. The disease is named after the animal.
The coincidence is that all animals evolve in a crab-shaped direction (as the meme goes), and all tech companies evolve in a cancer-shaped direction.
That these two “inevitable endpoint things” would happen to be linguistically closely related was unlikely.
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The coincidence is that all animals evolve in a crab-shaped direction (as the meme goes), and all tech companies evolve in a cancer-shaped direction.
That these two “inevitable endpoint things” would happen to be linguistically closely related was unlikely.