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Microsoft Addresses Pressure From Developer Community, Promises To Rename GVFS
DuroSoft writes: Earlier this week an article ran about how Microsoft's multi-year refusal to rename its terabyte-scale Git extension "GVFS" (Git Virtual File System) had drawn the ire and dismay of the GNOME GVfs project (Gnome Virtual File System) which predates the Microsoft project by years. Thanks to Slashdot coverage and community pressure, Microsoft has now officially promised to rename GVFS to something else, and is asking the community for suggestions for a new name. Is this an official sign that MIcrosoft is finally listening to developers (albeit with a Slashdot-level of negative attention), or are they simply trying to appease the crowd while they are still in the news due to their acquisition of GitHub?
Subject line says it all.
That always works out well.. File McFileyFace? Gitty McGit Face?
Sent from my TARDIS
Extended - Cross-platform Terabyte-enabled Filesystem, version 4.
Or Ext4-FS, for short.
Just a few days ago I have posted bunch of copy-pasted GNOME's GVFS issues into the issue tracker of Microsoft's GVFS just to troll them. Looks like I've somewhat influenced this decision - at least in my mind :)
What are you blathering on about? It's under the MIT license.
https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS
Way to go you bad bug-filing terrorist. You should be sent off to...wait for it...GITmo!
MS suffered the slashdot effect and are begging for mercy. Never underestimate the power of dozens, perhaps hundreds of nerds going to your website.
Trolling is a art,
Where's My Data File System
To keep consistent with Microsofts other product names, they should call it "File server." Like how they have "Sql server" as the name for their sql server, and "office" as the name of their office suite, and "Disk Operating System" is the name of their first disk operating system.