Microsoft employee Saeed Noursalehi announced the decision to rename Microsoft's Git Virtual File System (GVFS) due to a conflict with the GNOME Virtual File System (Gvfs) project:
We’ve heard the feedback, so lets use this issue to come up with a new name for this project. As we all know, folks from Microsoft don’t have a rich tradition of picking super awesome names for things. I'm no exception to that pattern, so I was thinking we could all put some sensible suggestions into this issue. I’ll then compile a short list and then we’ll all get to vote on the new name.
Source: https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS/issues/72
(Score: 3, Funny) by AssCork on Wednesday June 06 2018, @06:02PM (3 children)
. . . and Microsoft is already changing the labels on everything.
Someone should drag their marketing team out into Tienanmen Square already.
Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.
(Score: 5, Funny) by bob_super on Wednesday June 06 2018, @06:20PM
Hey! I'll have you know that the Chinese have recently taken a very strong stance on pollution and littering.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @06:45PM
In February of 2017, Microsoft GVFS was not integrated into Github. The request to change the name was made then. An article posted on medium.com this month noted that the problematic name still stood. The original request is in the bug-tracker: https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS/issues/7 [github.com]
Note that this is a different link from the one in the article which is to issue #72.
(Score: 3, Touché) by mrpg on Wednesday June 06 2018, @09:48PM
https://blog.github.com/2018-06-04-github-microsoft/ [github.com]