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+\section{Names}
+\label{names}
+
+You have probably heard the term *floating object* or *float* for short.
+That is mainly what this package is about.
+However, I intended to avoid the term *floating* in the name of this package because this package also allows
+to globally disable the floating of those objects.
+Therefore I decided to name this package *objects*.
+
+This name, however, has been rejected by \TeX\ Live as being too generic.
+And they are right, especially for people with an object oriented programming background that name might be misleading.
+\TeX\ Live has informed me that floating objects are still called floats even if they are technically not floating.
+Therefore I have decided to rename this package to *easyfloats*.
+
+I have *not* changed the user interface because the package has already been online for more than half a year on my gitlab repository and I don't know how many people are using the package already.
+Therefore all commands and environments defined by this package still carry the old name *object* in them.