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As someone else pointed out elsewhere in the thread, that's not really the case: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not-require-companies

• trowawee 11y ago
  Eh. The EFF sorta handwaves genericide there, but that's literally the exact reason why companies do this stuff, and it is a real concern. > This is very rare and would not be a problem for Canonical unless people start saying “Ubuntu” simply to mean “operating system.” Well, yeah, but that's what can happen when you don't police it. That's sorta the point of policing it, so that that exact scenario does not come to pass.