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I'll never understand people who are sticklers for 'correctly' using some corporation's trademarks. "Can you xerox a copy of that for me?" "You know, our pho
by George83728 3y ago
I'll never understand people who are sticklers for 'correctly' using some corporation's trademarks. "Can you xerox a copy of that for me?" "You know, our photocopy machine is made by HP and the Xerox corporation doesn't like when people genericize their..." Why the hell do they care on the corporations behalf? If you aren't being paid by that corp to care.. then why?
- rvnx 3y ago"Can you xerox for me, or can you IBM my software" ? Never heard of such, I understand why they get upset if someone sprinkle the sentences with ads.
- George83728 3y agoI'm not talking about people who are unfamiliar with the term xerox, meaning 'photocopy' (which has been in use this way for decades.) I'm talking about people who object to the use of this term because the Xerox company hates it (they could in principle lose their trademark because of it, but that's not my problem.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox#Trademark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox#Trademark
- detaro 3y agoLegos is another one of those which I never got why people were so insistent on quoting the corporate statements on it so vehemently.
- erikerikson 3y agoSee also Kleenex
- cronix 3y agoAnd for that, you can just "google it"
- arrowsmith 3y agoThe classic British example is "hoover".
- dotnet00 3y ago"xerox" is a pretty common term for photocopy (particularly in Asia), just as "google" is a pretty common term for looking something up on the internet.