# Re: Suggestion for Improvement of Xscanimage

David Mosberger-Tang (David.Mosberger@acm.org)
Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:42:36 -0700

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>>>>> On Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:16:32 +0200 (MET DST), Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij@caiw.nl> said:

>> I already thought about that, but in my dictonary there is
>> written:
>>
>> xerox = photocopy,
>>
>> The question is: is "xerox = photocopy" because everybody uses it
>> that way because the name is taken from the company, or has there
>> been the word "xerox" first and the company named itsel "xerox"
>> aterwards?

Hugo> It is named after the company. They do not seem to be that
Hugo> hard on this as it means good advertisement.

As I recall it, Xerox went to court trying to enforce their trademark
but they lost because "xeroxing" had become a synonym for photocopying
long before they tried to enforce the trademark (well, I'm sure
someone will correct the details...).

Anyhow, I think we're on fairly safe ground with "xerox" but the SANE
legal staff is certainly much worse endowed than Xerox's, so picking a
safer name may still be better... ;-)

>> I don't know and if there might be a real problem with it, I will
>> call id Xphotocopy, but that's too lonk :-( !

Hugo> How about Xcopy ;-)

That would sound like an X11 version of the "cp" command. I like
xphotocopy or, if you want to be in line with the other SANE
frontends, xcopyimage (I don't think long filenames are a big issue,
given that every decent shell today has filename completion...).

--david

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