@Seetee @DrPen Yeah text document implies plain text.

The wiki page for docx refers to the type of files in question as "word processing documents", which seems accurate but is a bit of a mouthful. I suppose a compromise is to contract it to (lower case) "word documents" though that of course does not stand the line particularly clearly against the Microsoft software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

@DavidBHimself @DrPen Language works a lot of different ways, so when trying to use language to achieve change, you have to work within the circumstances. I've intentionally used the generic coke, kleenex, etc in my writing because in the 90s, brands would actually publish in writers magazines telling us NOT to. (I still remember one: "You wouldn't XEROX a XEROX on a XEROX!" (This was long before that infamous anti-piracy ad.)

In this case, I'd lean towards avoiding the brand names, because they essentially have a monopoly. When I write the word kleenex in defiance of the trademark, it's because the box I have next to me is definitely a generic. This is true for most people, who rarely are going to have exactly kleenex™ brand tissues. Not so with spreadsheets, slidedecks, or teleconf brands, where all we do is reinforce the fact that they own us and we lack much of a choice.

But we can choose what we call them and remind folks, even if subconsciously, that there are alternatives.

@yuhasz01 @DrPen

We are seeing a regime and ethnic cleansing in action and its appropriate to name this as such, but I find it unfair to shit on all the persecuted people unfairly convicted of felony offenses and reformed criminals just cos we don't like the most infamous felon atm, like being a felon doesn't mean a person is bad, there are more meaningful ways to describe and call out Trump's lack of morals and competence

@KayOhtie @DrPen As a bonus, especially for those of us that use AWS tools regularly: it's a fun and useful exercise to translate their nomenclature (like VPCs, IFWs, and various rules engines) back into their IETF standards: https://www.rfc-archive.org

I regularly and almost-religiously do this, because I refuse to let Amazon own the terms under which internet connectivity operates.