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It’s not the first time — plenty of people still use “Xerox” to mean copy even if they obviously are not referring to a machine made by Xerox
In Russian, it's a generally used term "xerox it" ("отксерить") for when you need to copy some papers
In Poland it's called "ksero" all the time even though most people never even heard about the Xerox company
That’s really interesting actually, funny how languages evolve that way