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>>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

Linus> People who do it tend to universally do it because they haven't thought
Linus> it through, and are supporting some older behaviour. And in the process
Linus> they make their filesystem less reliable *and* slower.

Just playing the devil's advocate (I prefer the clean filesystem of Unix), the
argument the case-folding fans make is "well, taxes and TAXES is the same
word, right?".

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