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More passionate views.

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Nathaniel Beaver
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the computer effectively considers the users to be too stupid or blind
or whatever to be able to say what we mean accurately.
--- Greg A. Woods
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-11/msg00127.html
Why oh why on Earth engineers at Microsoft decided to make Windows case
insensitve and then use camel case anyway, wherever possible?
It makes case-sensitive systems and their sysadmins cry :-(
--- u/bwosc
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2w6c8g/case_insensitive_windows_rant/
Why are computer file names and conventions and protocols so messed up? It's
bizarre -- and Microsoft has been one of the worst offenders with one of the
most powerful positions and opportunities to make it a better filename-naming
world.
[ . . . ]
And, Microsoft dares to allow mixed case naming, but does case insensitive
handling of file names... don't even get me started about some of the bizarre
results and buggy behavior I've traced to that. I only wish I'd had a
chargeback code for all of the time I've spent fixing and debugging systems
that all come back to the file naming. Sigh, again.
--- yagu
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190747&cid=15690704
Laying aside that argument for the moment,
why did Windows filenames end up case-insensitive?