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"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.
by rvnx 4y 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 4y 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 4y 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 4y agoSee also Kleenex
- cronix 4y agoAnd for that, you can just "google it"
- arrowsmith 4y agoThe classic British example is "hoover".
- dotnet00 4y 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.