Denx (a.k.a. U-Boot) Retires
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DENX, the company behind U-Boot, has retired after 20 years, but its engineers have joined a new company, NABLA, to continue providing support; the community is reflecting on U-Boot's impact and the implications of DENX's retirement.
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If you ask me it was funnier, and less risk of anybody actually dying.
edit: ah, the name of the symbol for the gradient operator is nabla
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.
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.
U-boot will not die from this
http://www.zoobab.com/denx-bdm4jtag
Enjoy retirement!