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Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System

posted by martyb on Wednesday June 06 2018, @05:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the VFS-G? dept.

pvanhoof writes:

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

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @06:16PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @06:16PM (#689442)

    the article that may have instigated the change in stance: https://medium.com/@DuroSoft/despite-backlash-microsoft-sticks-with-controversial-gvfs-name-57d6e175af9c [medium.com]

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @07:03PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @07:03PM (#689483)

    Who reads medium.com?

    I'd expect Slashdot or ArsTechnica might have been influentual but never Medium.com

    Acronyms suck anyhow. My bet is they'll be boring and safe and go with GitVS.

    Part of me wishes more projects would learn from SAMBA, and turn yet another boring generic TLA like SMB into something more memorable (and probably trademarkable too if you need a cynical business reason).

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @07:06PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @07:06PM (#689485)

      Well, Slashdot linked to medium.com so there you have it.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @07:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @07:38PM (#689499)

      Hacker News, sadly. They link to medium like they think it's curated or something.