• JustARaccoon@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I mean if anything, look at Velcro and how generalising a term makes it untrademarkeable. Overusing words can and will screw companies.

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      4 months ago

      He means programming language. Don’t use programming languages that are controlled by a single company. Not “don’t say CUDA when you mean any general purpose GPU programming language”.

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      4 months ago

      The funny thing with that, I haven’t seen a term taken like that from a tech company though.

      Xerox is the only one I can think of that came close, Googling at this point…