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melling on Feb 3, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System

When they picked the "Windows" product name, they could have picked a name that didn't conflict with the use of windows. Picking on an obscure file system doesn't even register in comparison.

X Windows

NeWS - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

Remember the mess on usenet?

comp.windows.x.motif

comp.windows.new - not news about Microsoft Windows

hobarrera on Feb 3, 2017 [–]

In this particular case, the name is THE SAME (GVFS / GVFS). And they're both virtual filesystems, so there's lots of rooms for confusion.

I can image people at a forum:

"Hey, GVFS isn't working for me. It crashes with error -504" when I try to mount /nfs/company_data".

Try guessing which GVFS that is.

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