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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?

3 of 203 comments (clear)

  1. We don't care by rastos1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We don't care. We don't have to. We are Microsoft.

  2. Re:Just acronym collision by lhunath · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You trivialize name disputes. If the significance of a name conflict were as shoulder-shrug as you aim to convey there would be absolutely no existential reason for or value in trademarks.

    The reality however is a little more complicated and requires us to admit that names are significant and we should not just shrug them off.

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    ``OK, so ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah?''
  3. Re:Really really easy solution by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, change it to Not Their File System.

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    #DeleteChrome