On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote: > In the Lucid Lynx Beta2 release notes, it states that Remote Filesystems > is now going to be called Gigolo. Could developers please rename "Gigolo" to > "Remote File Systems" again, because I'm getting sick of open source > projects with weird sexual names. We already have an application called > "GIMP" so why make it any worse? Surely there is a dev who has English as a > first language, who can spot these things! > > Evidence of seedyness in the name: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_prostitution > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuce_Bigalow:_Male_Gigolo > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondage_suit > > It was actually given that name on purpose. I don't recall the exact quotation, but the dev called it Gigolo because it mounts what you tell it to mount.
I had the same kind of reaction when I heard about the name last year, though. Jim
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