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

[François Revol]

> Fran?ois Revol wrote:
> >>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.
> 
> 	That's not very creative. I think a better theory is that ALL CAPS 
> was 
> a de facto standard foisted on us by Microsoft. Apple came out with a 
> computer that could do lowercase but MS asserted that their customers 
> did not want or need lowercase. At least, not until MS supported 
> lowercase. Naturally, Unix had supported lowercase since the dawn of 
> time but was also the subject of much patent wrangling.
> 
> 	Is that closer to the answer you were looking for, Felker?

Lol, that would be funny but it was before the whole M$ thing really :P
teletypes and friends... :)

Fran?ois.