I, for one, am glad it was mentioned. There's nothing secret about it and it saves me some trouble. Thanks for taking one for the team, Guy who figured it out

Same here. With all the detail provided it’s not hard to figure out the company.

Btw. You can vouch for comments that are marked dead to revive them.

Making clear allusions to the company without directly naming it allows anybody in this conversation who cares to figure it out easily, but doesn't get this discussion automatically indexed with that company's name. Naming the company in a response is rude and unnecessary.

Disagree. I sometimes have cause to comment here and obliquely reference my own project, without its name.

Because its name isn’t important to the context, and mentioning it seems gauche; I don’t want to ‘make the conversation about me’.

It’s not because I really don’t want anyone here to know about it: if that was the case, I would have kept my trap shut in the first place.

I don't want to know the company's name, but it's interesting to know the history of this event and how it came about.

If people want to do sleuthing, have fun.

Or at least frame it in a more passive tone like "would you be comfortable disclaiming the name of the company where you work?"