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Re:Judge Denies Apple Request To Stop Amazon From Using "App... by tomlin on Thursday July 07, 2011 @11:34AM (#2738865)
This is not a good argument. To me, protecting a name like "App Store" would be as silly as protecting the word "Computer" before commonplace in society. Can you imagine the ads for such a company? "Don't be fooled by those other microcomputer systems! We're the real Computer^tm^!"

And yes, there are examples of this today already, but that doesn't make it a good idea.

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Re:Judge Denies Apple Request To Stop Amazon From Using "App... by pyre on Thursday July 07, 2011 @02:51PM (#2739779)
Computer was a generic term even before computer devices. "Computer" was used to refer to people that performed computations. If you paid someone to perform busy-work computations all day, then they were a 'computer.'

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer#History_of_computing

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