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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:37PM (#690101)

    The gospel according to Wikipedia... [wikipedia.org]

    Chamberlin and Boyce's first attempt of a relational database language was Square, but it was difficult to use due to subscript notation. After moving to the San Jose Research Laboratory in 1973, they began work on SEQUEL. The acronym SEQUEL was later changed to SQL because "SEQUEL" was a trademark of the UK-based Hawker Siddeley aircraft company.

    So it's not that SEQUEL was the predecessor to SQL. They just renamed it for legal reasons, and it seems very likely that the new name was selected in part because it could reasonably be pronounced the same way.

    I'm sure SQL today bears little resemblance to the SQL of 1973, but the same will be true for virtually any language with more than 40 years of history.