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ehh... I am not sure, A photo shop was a thing long before adobe made some software that could replace an entire photo shop and called it... Photoshop. Verb yo
by somat 2y ago
ehh... I am not sure,
A photo shop was a thing long before adobe made some software that could replace an entire photo shop and called it... Photoshop. Verb your nouns and that thing you do in a photo shop becomes "to photoshop"
I think the insistence on using the "Adobe® Photoshop®" is more that the term is already sort of generic and they are on shaky ground from the start. Sort of like windows, or dos, Microsoft goes hard always calling it "Microsoft Windows®" or "MS DOS®" because just windows, or disk operating system are already very generic terms.
https://youtube.com/v/BR6F0EdyulA?t=404 https://youtube.com/v/BR6F0EdyulA?t=404 (dave plummer)
Not that this will stop them from trying to sue you if you release products using those terms, Gotta give the lawyers something to do after all. Otherwise they would just be sitting around wasting money.
This is in contrast to Xerox a term invented specifically for a new invention and the company that invented it.
- deaddodo 2y agoIt doesn't necessarily matter if you follow their guidelines or not, this is all legal facade so that they can retain their trademark. In the majority of instances, they simply have to show they made efforts to retain their unique trademark. They don't care that you say "I photoshopped X" they just care that GIMP isn't marketed as "GIMP: Open Source Photoshop" (or similar instances).