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Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: There he goes again Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:20:07 -0000 (UTC) Organization: the-candyden-of-code Lines: 24 Message-ID: <slrnv97uke.497.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid> References: <v69its$3dons$1@dont-email.me> <sG6s8v.B6nB@yahoo.com> <v6ar7b$3ngh6$2@dont-email.me> <v6ci5t$oq$1@dont-email.me> <v6cr5s$1kfb$1@dont-email.me> <leug5rFgsj3U2@mid.individual.net> <v6d3qp$6ida$1@dont-email.me> <lf0rmsFmm0pU7@mid.individual.net> <v6ht4l$12f54$8@dont-email.me> <slrnv8p1p9.4ef.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid> <lf3p0dFd7obU1@mid.individual.net> <slrnv8t383.2rf6.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid> <lf83t6F2jubU4@mid.individual.net> <lf8dm1F3j7qU1@mid.individual.net> <slrnv958hb.3tc.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid> <lffvq3F8h1fU3@mid.individual.net> <v6va8b$3r1am$6@dont-email.me> <lfh2evFdhd3U3@mid.individual.net> <v6voc0$10rb$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 18:20:07 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="dbf946a48c3ba77a74d47423cb04007e"; logging-data="246314"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+B+5kLANDYO6GjojI+NIwM/Y++RtkhbtrxwamL97G6bA==" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+GDru0X5VoFUR2CCGvJi5LEUx8I= X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]% b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA]<D Bytes: 2892 Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 05:40 this Sunday (GMT): > On 14 Jul 2024 04:28:16 GMT, rbowman wrote: > >> On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 01:39:24 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> On 13 Jul 2024 18:36:51 GMT, rbowman wrote: >>> >>>> A USB flash drive, aka memory stick, aka thumb drive? >>> >>> Sony has, or had, a trademark on the term “Memory Stick”. Which kind of >>> discouraged its use for USB sticks in general. >> >> Yeah, well, Xerox, Kleenex, and Band-Aid are trademarked too afaik. > > I think most of those are gone. Yeah, isn't there a legal thing where like if a name becomes part of common vocabulary, then you lose the trademark? I remember a long time ago reading that Photoshop was trying to get people to say they "digitally enhanced this image with Adobe PhotoshopTM" instead of saying "i photoshopped it" like a normal person. -- user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom