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Fair, I'd still maintain too little too late. "Glimpse" didn't happen until much later. A point I made above; I think people are really WAY too inside their ow
by jrm4 4y ago
Fair, I'd still maintain too little too late. "Glimpse" didn't happen until much later.
A point I made above; I think people are really WAY too inside their own silos. I work at a university, I've also done non-profit work with children who are LEARNING this stuff. And now, what does it look like, me like "Hey kids, try GIMP?"
- nojonestownpls 4y agoI'm only seeing this now (so not sure if you'll read this), but: The thing is, vast swathes of the world doesn't know what that word means. I didn't know it until I learned about this controversy. If the name had been the "greatest barrier" to its acceptance, GIMP would have been taken up in a LOT of the poorer countries, both because it's free and almost no one knows the word well enough to see it as offensive. Maybe the name played a role in some small way in US academic institutions or something similar to that. But without more fundamental issues (usability issues, stability problems in the past, UI latency, a thousand other little papercuts), the name itself would not have been a great barrier for GIMP.