Unix's case sensitivity has long been a source of minor but obvious annoyance to non-technical users, to whom a name is a name -- the case of the letters is irr

Unix's case sensitivity has long been a source of minor but obvious annoyance to non-technical users, to whom a name is a name -- the case of the letters is irrelevant. On top of which, it would have been an added complication for developers porting from Classic, and an unexpected change for users, in exchange for no substantive benefit. In truth, the only time HFS+'s case-insensitivity has bitten me was extracting an SDK from Broadcom, and even then, the SDK wasn't about to run on OS X anyway (it's entirely Linux-based), I was just pulling out some documentation.