[coreboot] Enforcing coreboot as lowercase

Hi The coreboot trademark is registered as lowercase. We enforce this in for instance commits, even when normal grammar would dictate uppercase at the start of a sentence. This makes sense for very well known brands, companies and products like "eBay", "iPhone", "AMD". They are all very well know

[coreboot] Re: Enforcing coreboot as lowercase

Hi, On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 3:48 PM Arthur Heymans wrote: > > Hi > > The coreboot trademark is registered as lowercase. > We enforce this in for instance commits, even when normal grammar would > dictate uppercase at the start of a sentence. > > This makes sense for very well known brands, compan

[coreboot] Re: Enforcing coreboot as lowercase

Hi Thanks for the reply. Are you proposing to give up trying to defend the spelling of the > project's name because too many people write it wrong and educating > them is too much effort? If so, I think this is a self-defeating > attitude and I completely disagree with it. Language is not a set

[coreboot] Re: Enforcing coreboot as lowercase

AFAIK the project name has been all lowercase from the start, and I don't see a compelling reason here to change it. To my eyes, it looks strange/wrong when started with a capital C. Phoronix et all can continue being wrong =D On Thu, Jul 4, 2024, 12:53 PM Arthur Heymans wrote: > Hi > > Thanks

[coreboot] Re: Enforcing coreboot as lowercase

Hi, not sure if it matters, but as a data point: I'm a coreboot user since about 8 years, I didn't know about the trademark being all-lowercase, and "Coreboot" at the start of a sentence definitively seems more harmonious to me. > Coreboot is a reasonably well known as a project, but little peopl

[coreboot] Re: Enforcing coreboot as lowercase

On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 10:46 AM Arthur Heymans wrote: > Hi > > Thanks for the reply. > > Are you proposing to give up trying to defend the spelling of the >> project's name because too many people write it wrong and educating >> them is too much effort? If so, I think this is a self-defeating >>

[coreboot] Re: Enforcing coreboot as lowercase

On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 12:42 PM David Hendricks wrote: > [...]but I wouldn't ding people for using `Coreboot` in casual contexts > such as forums, commit messages, etc. > To clarify, I meant that writing `Coreboot` is not a concern from a trademark standpoint (AFAIK) and can make sense in some c

[coreboot] Re: Enforcing coreboot as lowercase

coreboot / Coreboot is certainly not high on the list of things that keep me awake at night :-) I think the world is sensitized to case not mattering that much. COREBOOT.org and coreboot.org go to the same place; so do amd.com and AMD.COM ron / Ron On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 1:13 PM David Hendricks