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Call it GNU IMP if it bothers you
by Lammy 2y ago
Call it GNU IMP if it bothers you
- balamatom 2y agoSome classic FOSShead contrariness on their part. They shoulda used the major release to officially rename it to GNU IMP, if you ask me. GNU could use the publicity and an "imp" is definitely cuter than a "gimp".
- TylerE 2y agoImp isn't much better, especially south of the Bible Belt.
- the_af 2y agoHow do they feel about unix daemons or the FreeBSD mascot?
- GuinansEyebrows 2y agoThey use Windows Server.
- solardev 2y agoAnd never mention chmod 666 or fsck...
- flykespice 2y agoWhen I was a teenager I wanted to try FreeBSD but got turned away by the daemon mascot. I didn't want my christian conservative parents to keep berating at me as if I turned in to the devil for choosing a OS that has a mascot that resembles one.
- II2II 2y agoMy parents were quite tolerant of my devil worship[1], but they did tell me to hide my BSD Unix books when religious relatives visited. [1] I think they knew Beastie was a harmless computer thing, but they also thought the moon was the size of a basketball.
- lmm 2y agoAngry/hateful often enough to cause trouble.
- dpkirchner 2y agoAt some point they'll just have to grow up.
- wtcactus 2y agoAs much as do the people that get offended by the word "gimp", I guess.
- evanb 2y agoShouldn't it expand to GIMP IMP? Or GIMP IMP IMP? Or GIMP IMP IMP IMP IMP? Maybe the fixed point is G...IMP?
- roenxi 2y agoGNU/Linux/IMP