[Ffmpeg-devel] [Ss][Nn][Oo][Ww] spelling^wbranding

[François Revol]

> On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 07:57:17PM +0200, Erik Slagter wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 09:00 -0600, Mike Melanson wrote:
> > > > Sorry for bothering, but is there an official spelling or not?  
> > > > Or is it
> > > > just "I don't care, follow your own preference.", which is also 
> > > > fine.
> > > 
> > > 	Conventionally, FOURCCs from AVI files are uppercase. I would 
> > > vote for 
> > > SNOW (and that is the current FOURCC).
> > 
> > Aarrrgggg, capitals are ugly! Also they tend to be favoured by ugly
> > operating systems and applications (= because they are archaic).
> 
> Anyone know the reason why legacy systems used all caps? It's really
> funny..

Because primitive terminals only had caps.

Fran?ois.