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Microsoft Sticks With Controversial 'GVFS' Name Despite Backlash (medium.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the there's-more-than-meets-the-eye dept.

New submitter DuroSoft writes: It has been over a year since Microsoft unveiled its open source GVFS (Git Virtual File System) project, designed to make terabyte-scale repositories, like it's own 270GB Windows source code, manageable using Git. The problem is that the GNOME project already has a virtual file system by the name of GVfs that has been in use for years, with hundreds of threads on Stack Overflow, etc. Yet Microsoft's GVFS has already surpassed GVfs in Google and is causing confusion. To make matters worse, Microsoft has officially refused to change the name, despite a large public backlash on GitHub and social media, and despite pull requests providing scripts that can change the name to anything Microsoft wants. Is this mere arrogance on Microsoft's part, laziness to do a quick Google search before using a name, or is it something more sinister?

4 of 203 comments (clear)

  1. Turnabout is fair play by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Announcing the GNOME NTfs filesystem: a high performance filesystem tailored for our new HYPer-V virtual container system, part of the new GNOME EX-change server platform.

  2. Re:Really really easy solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Change GVFS to GOD (GNOME Object Drive). He surely wouldn't mind and there should be fewer search conflicts on stack overflow.

  3. Re:MS sucks at naming things by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 5, Funny

    My favorite is still the infamous "Critical Update Notification Tool". Yes, they really released that.

  4. Re:Just acronym collision by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    0 != strcmp("Office Open XML", "Open Office XML")

    Cute. Not very bright, though, are you?