Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!djfiander
From: djfiander@watmath.waterloo.edu (David Fiander)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX or Unix
Message-ID: <17984@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 88 01:20:47 GMT
References: <7763@alice.UUCP> <485@flatline.UUCP> <3563@cbmvax.UUCP> <474@vsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: djfiander@watmath.waterloo.edu (David Fiander)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <474@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP writes:
>In article <3563@cbmvax.UUCP>, grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>> In article <485@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) writes:
>> 
>> object lessons that Coke doesn't mean "generic cola drink".
>
>I believe the list of trademarks-gone-generic includes (notice no
>initial caps) aspirin, linoleum, cellophane, trampoline,
>probably lots others; my guess is that Jacuzzi and Magic Marker
>are the next to fall.

Carefull!  Asiprin is a registered trademark of Bayer still in Canada.
It's really weird watching American television, where everybody makes
`aspirin', when in Canada only one company is allowed to use the name.

-- 
It was one of themselves, one of their own prophets, who said,
"Cretans were never anything but liars, dangerous animals and lazy": and
that is a true statment.
	- Titus 1:12

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