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

[Rich Felker]

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..

Rich