为什么开源项目通常没有文件扩展名的文档文件？(Why do open-source projects often have documentation files with no file extension? [closed])

 开源项目通常附带自述文件，包含许可证文本的文件，以及其他各种内容。 通常，人们发现这些各种文档文件的命名没有文件扩展名。 以下是Github的一个例子。 名称通常是大写字母，如“README”而不是“readme.txt”。 
 
 这有点麻烦，因为如果您下载项目的副本，为了打开这些文件，您必须添加文件扩展名或每次，指示操作系统应该打开哪个程序。为什么会这样做有人宁愿不添加文件扩展名吗？ 这个恼人的惯例来自哪里？ 

Open-source projects generally come with a readme file, a file containing the text of the license, and maybe various other things. Often, one finds that these sundry documentation files are named without file extensions. Here is an example from Github. Often the names will be in capitals, as in "README" rather than "readme.txt".
 
This is a bit of a bother, because if you download a copy of the project, in order to open these files you have to add a file extension or each time, instruct the operating system on which program it should be opened in. Why would someone ever prefer not to add a file extension? Where does this irritating convention come from?

原文：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15582713