> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robinson Tryon > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:24 PM > To: Coreboot > Subject: Re: [coreboot] [LinuxBIOS] Welcome to coreboot. > > On Jan 14, 2008 7:40 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There is one aspect of the new name that was not discussed yet if I > > remember correctly: Capitalization. > > It seems "coreboot" is all lowercase. While I agree that it looks nice, > > I remember the trouble "openSUSE" had when they insisted on their > > particular capitalization, especially in contiguous texts with > > "openSUSE" at the beginning of some sentences. Starting a sentence with > > a lowercase word makes most word processors complain loudly. Independent > > of that, some media outlets don't care about capitalization of project > > names at all. > > I do like "coreboot" as it is because that capitalization gives me the > > impression of "works behind the scenes". > > I'm starting to update some of the wiki pages (e.g. the FAQ) to use > the new 'coreboot' name and I haven't seen a definite answer about the > capitalization question. Is there consensus that the name should be > lower-cased in all instances (even at the beginning of a sentence) ? > I would treat coreboot as a proper name always and therefore always refer to it as Coreboot. It also looks much more like a product that way to me. I think lowercase hides its importance and that is not advantageous to anyone. Lowercase also will have too many other technical problems with editors and such. > > Thanks, > -- Robinson > > -- > coreboot mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
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