I used to study news, which meant reading a lot of it, so maybe I'm not representative, but I immediately noticed that.
Whoever tastefully drew their logo in lowercase might've warned them not do it as all-caps elsewhere, if they were aware of the US brand issue.
If I had to refer to this brand name in text, such as in specs, I wouldn't do all-caps like they have. (To US people, who may be familiar with the toxic brand from written news, US journalism style guides tend to put initialisms and acronyms in all-caps, unlike in parts of Europe.) I would capitalize only the first letter.
The answer is in the link you clicked: U-boot will be maintained as the open-source project it is, with some engineers previously working at Denx going to a specific different company with the express purpose of supporting U-boot.
The founder and owner, Wolfgang Denk, sadly passed away in 2022. https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2022-October/497955.h...
Wolfgang was a great man. Beside of U-Boot his company was also deeply involved in the Linux real-time extension Xenomai: https://lore.kernel.org/xenomai/87v8oa60bx.fsf@xenomai.org/
NABLA is one typo away from some unsavory people.
To scientific-oriented minds it only refers to the mathematical operator.
I personally did not know about, and don't care about, the "horrifying" thing you see in nabla. And I will keep being like that.
If we were to start tracking all the things that are "a typo away from a bad thing", not a lot of words would be left.
For those missing the reference, NAMBLA is the "man/boy love association" (as in pedophiles).
I used to study news, which meant reading a lot of it, so maybe I'm not representative, but I immediately noticed that.
Whoever tastefully drew their logo in lowercase might've warned them not do it as all-caps elsewhere, if they were aware of the US brand issue.
If I had to refer to this brand name in text, such as in specs, I wouldn't do all-caps like they have. (To US people, who may be familiar with the toxic brand from written news, US journalism style guides tend to put initialisms and acronyms in all-caps, unlike in parts of Europe.) I would capitalize only the first letter.
It's also the name of a mathematical vector derivative operator (∇).
Interesting, I only knew it as the del until now
OMG, how did you remember that
I mean, North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes are not that bad.
Damn i have a Denx parallel port JTAG adaptor Somewhere in my stock:
http://www.zoobab.com/denx-bdm4jtag
Enjoy retirement!
Doesn't most of the embedded Linux world run on u-boot? whats going to happen to that market now?
Seems that it will be maintained by those using it (eg: companies and hobbyists alike)
U-boot will not die from this
The answer is in the link you clicked: U-boot will be maintained as the open-source project it is, with some engineers previously working at Denx going to a specific different company with the express purpose of supporting U-boot.
So long and denx for all the fish!
And for the (yellow) submarines!
U-Boot is pretty cool, I like how scriptable it is.