For everybody who has no idea what a "gravitational teleport" is: it's an SSH server (http://gravitational.com/teleport/). Probably it could be included in title? (yeah, I know HN guidelines prefer verbatim titles)
One would think that effect of gravitation could be forced to occur at a different place in the universe, nifty perhaps but not on the top of things I need.
It seems naming has turned into a poetic amalgam of words to excite. Stripped of meaning it is technobabble in its purest form.
I don't think there's much basis for this critique aside from the poor title choice.
Such a wealth of evidence that this is complete bullshit.
Emacs, Gnome, Amarok, Chrome, Firefox, Git, Mercurial, Hibernate, Spring, Play, Om, Racer.
GNOME is Gnu Network Object Model Environment.
a lot of these things it makes sense just to give a unique name (Git, Mercurial) followed by its 'type', e.g. "The Git VCS".
I may not understand what Emacs is by looking at just the name, but I'll definitely not think it's a breakthrough in quantum physics or a planetary engineering project.
I would state that, in previous times, this type of comment thread would be killed fairly quickly given what you name something really isn't that important vs. what it actually does for helping secure infrastructure. Perhaps we're seeing the effect of viral irrationality manifest itself here, within our gates.
We're here for learning about technology. We're not here to have some meaningless discussion about marketing tactics.
It's a company, under which other companies are contained?
On the other hand, future heralded by sci-fi is indeed now: you can download your gravitational teleport and you are free to use it :)