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https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-dont-like-the-name-gimp-will-you-change-it https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-dont-like-the-name-... Except for

https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-dont-like-the-name-gimp-will-you-change-it https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-dont-like-the-name-... Except for this? By all means consider renaming it. Or keep it to spite everyone who comes from the outside and tries to destroy hacker culture. Because that's what people are doing, destroying hacker culture just like we destroyed other cultures before. Yes, in some cases the new culture is better, but why oh why do we have to destroy everything funny or unusual in the process. This comes from someone who sometimes has to stand up for his group in other settings. Why can't society let us - and the hacker culture - alone as long as we adhere to the laws? If the GIMP won't be a commercial success - fine. Or someone can fork it and package it under another name - fine. Or the maintainers can sell out - or even agree - fine. But can't we stop this war against all forms of old school fun and what should I say - diversity?

krapp 7y ago
You claim to want to stop what you see as a war against fun and diversity, after insisting that anyone who doesn't share the same juvenile sense of humor as you, or who disagrees with the name of a software project, must be an outsider trying to destroy hacker culture? So do you want diversity or conformity, then? Stop with the gatekeeping BS, please. You don't get to say what hacker culture is or who belongs in it.
- effingwewt 7y ago
  There is a huge difference between asking to be left alone amd demanding others conform to something. If they don't like the name they don't have to use the software. Or as GP mentioned they can fork it to rename it whatever they'd like. Times like this I'm reminded of the adage 'Offense is taken not given.'
- slonewsday 7y ago
  This is fighting cultural imperialism, not "gatekeeping." I also question the intentions of the complainers. These kinds of complaints are usually made by people with little technical skills and barely any contributions to the project. They fabricate controversy in order to gain social media clout, then leverage that for consulting gigs.
- reitanqild 7y ago
  > Stop with the gatekeeping BS, please. You don't get to say what hacker culture is or who belongs in it. I'm not gatekeeping here, only suggesting that people behave nicely in other peoples houses so to speak. From the link I pasted it is quite clear what the GIMP maintainers used to think about this. If they reconsider I'm fine with that as well, I'm not attached to the name. But I am fed up with people coming to invade others cultures for the sake of making them acceptable to a certain subset of what seems to be extremely privileged people.

krapp 7y ago

You claim to want to stop what you see as a war against fun and diversity, after insisting that anyone who doesn't share the same juvenile sense of humor as you, or who disagrees with the name of a software project, must be an outsider trying to destroy hacker culture? So do you want diversity or conformity, then? Stop with the gatekeeping BS, please. You don't get to say what hacker culture is or who belongs in it.

effingwewt 7y ago
There is a huge difference between asking to be left alone amd demanding others conform to something. If they don't like the name they don't have to use the software. Or as GP mentioned they can fork it to rename it whatever they'd like. Times like this I'm reminded of the adage 'Offense is taken not given.'
slonewsday 7y ago
This is fighting cultural imperialism, not "gatekeeping." I also question the intentions of the complainers. These kinds of complaints are usually made by people with little technical skills and barely any contributions to the project. They fabricate controversy in order to gain social media clout, then leverage that for consulting gigs.
reitanqild 7y ago
> Stop with the gatekeeping BS, please. You don't get to say what hacker culture is or who belongs in it. I'm not gatekeeping here, only suggesting that people behave nicely in other peoples houses so to speak. From the link I pasted it is quite clear what the GIMP maintainers used to think about this. If they reconsider I'm fine with that as well, I'm not attached to the name. But I am fed up with people coming to invade others cultures for the sake of making them acceptable to a certain subset of what seems to be extremely privileged people.