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That's probably true. But offending people with prudish attitudes or without a sense of humor is a pretty common old-school hacker goal. It serves a valuable c

That's probably true. But offending people with prudish attitudes or without a sense of humor is a pretty common old-school hacker goal. It serves a valuable community function by protecting the community from corporate interests, non-technical bike-shedding, and overload by "bug" reports that are actually just the user not being technical enough to use the tool properly. Edit: Also FWIW, I've had no problem introducing GIMP to church groups and in various professional settings. Double edit: since you mention schools, I should also add that I taught my wife GIMP and she had no problem sharing it in her school (US public high school).

CharlesW 2y ago
> But offending people with prudish attitudes or without a sense of humor… Some folks who are neither prudish or humorless want to see the project and its contributors succeed to the degree that alternatives like Photopea has, or as Blender has in the 3D space. The project will continue to limp along until the name is changed to something without negative connotations in English-speaking populations.
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- alexey-salmin 2y ago
  You can fork it, rename to something like "Glimpse" and see the adoption skyrocket. Surely the success is just around the corner. Oh wait a minute
  - gkbrk 2y ago
    Hey don't be unfair to them, they also tried to collect donations for changing the name.
  - CharlesW 2y ago
    Point taken — the name is just one of many issues between GIMP and Blender-like success. But there are also open source projects like Inkscape, which enjoyed success in part because of a rechristening that eliminated the headwinds of previous bad names.
troyvit 2y ago
> offending people with prudish attitudes or without a sense of humor is a pretty common old-school hacker goal I agree, and to an extent laud it, but it also means keeping GIMP an old-school hacker project.

CharlesW 2y ago

> But offending people with prudish attitudes or without a sense of humor… Some folks who are neither prudish or humorless want to see the project and its contributors succeed to the degree that alternatives like Photopea has, or as Blender has in the 3D space. The project will continue to limp along until the name is changed to something without negative connotations in English-speaking populations.

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alexey-salmin 2y ago
You can fork it, rename to something like "Glimpse" and see the adoption skyrocket. Surely the success is just around the corner. Oh wait a minute
- gkbrk 2y ago
  Hey don't be unfair to them, they also tried to collect donations for changing the name.
- CharlesW 2y ago
  Point taken — the name is just one of many issues between GIMP and Blender-like success. But there are also open source projects like Inkscape, which enjoyed success in part because of a rechristening that eliminated the headwinds of previous bad names.

troyvit 2y ago

> offending people with prudish attitudes or without a sense of humor is a pretty common old-school hacker goal I agree, and to an extent laud it, but it also means keeping GIMP an old-school hacker project.