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The GIMP project has purposely made it difficult to rename; patches making it easier to rename have been categorically rejected by the maintainers. So, yes, pe
by leolambda 7y ago
The GIMP project has purposely made it difficult to rename; patches making it easier to rename have been categorically rejected by the maintainers.
So, yes, people are currently talking about forking it.
- siphon22 7y agoThey should do that, instead of destroying over 20 years of work to make their name. Let's see in the end which program will prosper.
- leolambda 7y ago> destroying over 20 years of work to make their name. Oh right. I forgot filing an issue presenting a calm and reasoned argument for changing one string of text to another was the same as "destroying" a project.
- siphon22 7y agoSnark is not acceptable on HN. And yes, making an established project change their name is destroying everything they had done for it under that name. They will have to start over from scratch and it will take years to reach the same level of name recognition.
- leolambda 7y agoAgain: this was addressed in the issue discussion, making me think you didn't read it. I'm not going to argue with you about this if you refuse to even read the document you're arguing against.
- xrd 7y agoYou are really going to lecture on snark after your last comment?
- siphon22 7y agoYou think >"Let's see in the end which program will prosper." is snark? I guess snark is also in the eye of the beholder.
- xrd 7y agoI didn't check the timestamps of all your comments so maybe it isn't your last comment. I'll let others here read through your comments (as I definitely did) and see if you made a snarky comment before lecturing others on snark. It might not be fair: snark is in the eye of the beholder, right? Oops, now I'm being snarky.