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I worked in a webdev shop where we relied heavily on graphical tools like ps and gimp. Never once have I heard anyone take issue with the name, at least not whe
by Zuiii 4y ago
I worked in a webdev shop where we relied heavily on graphical tools like ps and gimp. Never once have I heard anyone take issue with the name, at least not when I was there, so the name hasn't kept gimp from being a competitor to Adobe stuff in that company at least.
I have to ask: are there really that many companies out there that base their tooling decisions on tool naming? I imagine they wont use git or bash either lol.
- jrm4 4y agoSee, you're talking companies and tooling. The rest of the creative world, people learning, people who might use these tools later; students and children. I work in a university. Etc. All of those people know "photoshop" as a verb. And now I'm here saying -- "Try this thing, it's called...GIMP?" Sometimes people here are WILDLY out of touch.
- Zuiii 4y agoI think some people here are as wildly out of touch as the people they disagree with. Most people don't care about this and will use the tool that does the job, regardless of what it is named.
- jrm4 4y agoNope. It's not that individuals are offended or whatnot. It's that a ton of people will literally never be able to use this tool because they've never heard of it. They will not have heard of it because many of the kinds of people who might be able to introduce them to it will not take it seriously because it is a fundamentally unserious name.