This is what the GNU Coding Standards have to say about the README file. Others are INSTALL (instructions for building and installing the software), AUTHORS (list of contributors), COPYING (license text), HACKING (how to get started for contributing, maybe including a TODO list of starting points), NEWS (recent changes) or ChangeLog (mostly redundant with version control systems). The README file is part of a bunch of files a user of a free software package would normally expect to find. (Or, at least, should have looked at…) As others have already said, file names starting with a capital letter will be listed before lower-case names in ASCIIbetical sorting ( LC_COLLATE=C) which helps make the file visible at a first glance. All-uppercase letters stand out and make the file easily visible which makes sense because it is probably the first thing a new user would want to look at.
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