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

[Måns Rullgård]

"Fran?ois Revol" <revol at free.fr> writes:

>> 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.

Well, then what was the reason for that?  This reminds me of turtles.

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