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Microsoft Addresses Pressure From Developer Community, Promises To Rename GVFS

Posted by msmash on from the backtrack dept.

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?

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  1. Gitty McGitFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Subject line says it all.

  2. Taking suggestions? by sqorbit · · Score: 4, Funny

    That always works out well.. File McFileyFace? Gitty McGit Face?

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    1. Re:Taking suggestions? by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 5, Funny

      They could use ReiserFS - that's not being used.

  3. I know what it'll be by ausekilis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Extended - Cross-platform Terabyte-enabled Filesystem, version 4.
    Or Ext4-FS, for short.

  4. Re:Slashdot outrage... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 :)

  5. Re:Or.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    What are you blathering on about? It's under the MIT license.

    https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS

  6. Re:"Thanks to Slashdot coverage"? by grub · · Score: 5, Funny

    MS suffered the slashdot effect and are begging for mercy. Never underestimate the power of dozens, perhaps hundreds of nerds going to your website.

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