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Re:Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” by George83728 on Saturday May 06, 2023 @03:57AM (#35839187)
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?
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Re:Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” by rvnx on Saturday May 06, 2023 @06:26AM (#35839959)
"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.

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Re:Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” by George83728 on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:21AM (#35842198)
I'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

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Re:Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” by erikerikson on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:41AM (#35842429)
See also Kleenex
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Re:Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” by cronix on Saturday May 06, 2023 @01:28PM (#35843461)
And for that, you can just "google it"
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Re:Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” by arrowsmith on Saturday May 06, 2023 @02:08PM (#35843812)
The classic British example is "hoover".
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Re:Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” by detaro on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:38AM (#35842396)
Legos is another one of those which I never got why people were so insistent on quoting the corporate statements on it so vehemently.
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Re:Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” by dotnet00 on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:35AM (#35842360)
"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.
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