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As a general rule, don't use a corporation's language. Languages, and their reference implementation, should be truly independent.
Edit: To be clear, programming language.
Don't let a word have that much power over your life
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.
I mean if anything, look at Velcro and how generalising a term makes it untrademarkeable. Overusing words can and will screw companies.
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".
Pfff that makes more sense, I'm sorry @jabjoe@feddit.uk
No worries. I think your not the only one. I wasn't clear, sorry.
Now kith.
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...