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

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: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday June 07 2018, @04:11PM (1 child)

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Thursday June 07 2018, @04:11PM (#689900) Homepage

    As we all know, folks from Microsoft don’t have a rich tradition of picking super awesome names for things.

    I don't know, Microsoft are okay at names. At least they give you a hint at what something does instead of being smug little inside jokes.

    Notepad - perfectly good and functional name for a simple text editor
    Pluma, Geany, Emacs, Vim, Kate - nothing to do with their function

    Paint - let's you paint.
    GIMP - uhhh...?

    Outlook - could be a calendar? Not the best one, but at least vaguely related to what it does.
    Thunderbird - no idea.

    Internet Explorer - does exactly what it says.
    Firefox - 80's Clint Eastwood movie.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday June 07 2018, @05:03PM

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday June 07 2018, @05:03PM (#689944) Journal

    What's in a name? Apple, Microsoft, at least JellyBelly makes sense. Marketspeak is for people who like Marketing.

    Windows - Lets you see through a wall.
    DOS - I guess Uno was taken.
    Access - To what?
    Excel - lent
    Cortana - What's she do?
    OneNote - Forged in the darkness to bind them.
    XBox - ?? I thought it was for kids. Sounds kind of Kinky.

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