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I've always wondered if this sort of thing prevents The GIMP from greater adoption.
by foobarbecue 8y ago
I've always wondered if this sort of thing prevents The GIMP from greater adoption.
- bredren 8y agoI think so. Fckeditor changed its name after some debate [1]. I remember the first time I came across it as a wysiwyg plugin for vBulletin and thought fckeditor had an edgy name. It immediately comes to mind in this context. I felt some pause introducing fckeditor into an internal wikimedia install for a big company filled with old people I was working for at the time, just because I didn't want any waves whatsoever with those folks. I definitely would not have gotten up in front of them at a weekly meeting and trumpted how great of a tool "gimp" was. I sort of think people who keep names that are known to be problematic in FOSS are doing so somewhat to passive-troll and to keep normies away. Though my view of this is quite english-centric. [1] https://ckeditor.com/old/forums/CKEditor-3.x/Should-FCKeditor-change-its-name https://ckeditor.com/old/forums/CKEditor-3.x/Should-FCKedito...