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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't let a word have that much power over your life

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Corporation? I'm not anti business, far from it. But I have an interest in economics as well as technology. We need effective markets. CUDA is an example of a market problem caused by a corporation's own language. It has screwed up competition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No worries. I think your not the only one. I wasn't clear, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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...