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Campaign to Remove the Caps Lock Key from Keyboards

"The Caps key is an abomination," Hintjens, the CEO of iMatix, writes on his blog. "It's a huge key, stuck right there where the Ctrl used to be, and as far as I know, it's only used by 419 scammers and Fortran programmers."

Hintjens has started the Capsoff organization in a campaign urging hardware manufacturers to abandon the misused key. He plans on building the infrastructure for the movement by using freely available tools from Google. He's already set up a Blogger Capsoff blog and a forum at Google Groups.

Many are rather skeptical of Hintjens’ idea, "I don't see it being a problem at all," says Joel East, a technical designer at Ikey, a company that manufactures custom keyboards and pointing devices for industrial applications. "The Caps Lock key is there, and people can choose to use it or not." He continued, "It would make more sense for (Capsoff) to concentrate on educating and training the general population about etiquette and proper use of the keyboard,"


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