On Jan 17, 2008 6:48 PM, David Edrich dsedrich@violin-memory.com wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: coreboot-bounces@coreboot.org [mailto:coreboot-bounces@coreboot.org] 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 c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net 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.
The name 'coreboot' is lower-cased on the front page of the wiki, so it sounds like there is support for both all-lowercase ("coreboot") as well as capitalized ("Coreboot").
Would anyone else like to chime in?