Nah, it's fine. Flash is a long-established verb for programming firmware. "Flashing ROM" is apropos for write-once parts, and often used instead of the mouthf

Nah, it's fine. Flash is a long-established verb for programming firmware. "Flashing ROM" is apropos for write-once parts, and often used instead of the mouthful "flashing EEPROM". The real oxymoron is "Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory," but that's just evolution showing and it's fine.