Problem

The recent JavaScript debacle due to a trademark dispute should be a serious warning about the dangers of using real names for naming things in our code.

It's not a widespread practice, but Symfony uses real people names, real company names and real websites in some tests.

Solution

Wikipedia publishes a list of safe placeholders for any need. I propose to enforce the use of these placeholders in our codebase, to avoid any problem:

• Companies: Acme
• People: John Doe and Jane Doe
• Websites, domains: example.org and example.com
• Variables: foo, bar, baz and qux