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What's with the CUDA reference?
by libpcap 4y ago
What's with the CUDA reference?
- thebooktocome 4y agoPerhaps it’s short for barracuda?
- weare138 4y agoThere's a note buried at the bottom of the page: Disclaimer: word "cuda" is taken from Serbian language, it means "miracles".
- lightdot 4y agoThat got me wondering at a first glance too. But in this case, the word stands for "čuda" not CUDA. Čuda = miracles, wonders, in Serbian (and several other languages). And odd conglomerate of words from different languages perhaps, one even anglicized (ASCIIzed?) at that... Well, it does get the people talking, I suppose.
- Uehreka 4y agoIn trademark law, the owner of a mark (Nvidia in the case of CUDA) can usually make someone stop using a mark if it would lead to “consumer confusion about the source of the goods” (i.e. people seeing “CudaText” and assuming it has an association with Nvidia/CUDA). IANAL, and have no idea how likely Nvidia would be to succeed in a trademark dispute with this developer. But in situations like this, it’s often good to just not use a name if a large section of your target audience could become confused upon hearing it. Even if you didn’t know about the other product when you came up with your name, and even if it’s technically legal.
- Alexey_Tor 4y agoAuthor of CudaText here. If I will get the complain from NVIDIA I can rename the project to 'CudeText', word 'cude' is 'miracle'. Now I think that similar name was a little mistake from my side, I needed to name it 'CudeText' earlier.
- dmitrybrant 4y agoIt's from the Serbian word "čuda", which is pronounced "chuda". It means "miracles", and also occurs in many other Slavic languages (Russian "чуда", etc)