I'm surprised by the name choice, there's a large company with an almost identical name that has products that do this. May be worth changing it sooner rather than later.
Are you suggesting that this wasn't intentional? The name is clearly a play on "zero shot" + "xerox"
We're not planning to name a company after it or anything, just the OS tool. And if xerox sues I'm sure we could rename the repo lol.
I actually had a leg to stand on (my use was not infringing at all when I started using it), and I came out of it somewhat cash-positive, but I absolutely never want to go through anything like that ever again.
> Yup definitely a play on the name. Also the idea of photocopying a page,
But you? My God, man.
With these words you have already doomed yourself.
Best wishes.
At least they didn't say "xeroxing a page".
I guess I just don’t understand - how are you proceeding as if this is an acceptable starting point?
With all respect, I don’t think you’re taking this seriously, and it reflects poorly on the team building the tool. It looks like this is also a way to raise awareness for Omni AI? If so, I’ve gotta be honest - this makes me want to steer clear.
Bottom line, it’s a bad idea/decision. And when bad ideas are this prominent, it makes me question the rest of the decisions underlying the product and whether I want to be trusting those decision makers in the many other ways trust is required to choose a vendor.
Not trying to throw shade; just sharing how this hits me as someone who has built products and has been the person making decisions about which products to bring in. Start taking this seriously for your own sake.
Edit: Reading the comments below, yes, it was.
Very disrespectful behavior.
am I only one finding these sort of takes silly in a cumulative globalized world with instant communications? There are so many things to be named, everything named is instantly available around the world, so many jurisdictions to cover - not all providing the same levels of protections to "trademarks".
Are we really suggesting this issue is worth defending and spending resources on?
what is the ground for confusion here? that a developer stumbles on here and thinks zerox is developed/maintained by xerox? this developer gets confused but won't simply check who is the owner of the repository? What if there's a variable called zerox?
I mean, I get it: the whole point of IP at this point is really just to create revenue streams for the legal/admin industry so we should all be scared and spend unproductive time naming a software dependency
All 5 minutes it would take to name it something else?
Absolutely.
Sure, sometimes non-competing products have the same name. Or products sold exclusively in one country use the same name as a competitor in a different country. There's also companies that don't trademark or protect their names. Often no one even notices the common name.
That's not whats happening here. Xerox is famously litigious about their trademark; often used as a case study. The product competes with Xerox OCR products in the same countries.
It's a strange thing to be cavalier about and to openly document intent to use a sound-alike name. Besides, do you really want people searching for "Zerox OCR" to land on a Xerox page? There's no shortage of other names.