The GIMP name controversy, explained
www.spacebar.news
GIMP was named after a character in Pulp Fiction. More than 20 years later, the name remains controversial and could be holding back the project.
  • Krafting@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 months ago

    GIMP is part of the brand, remove the brand and you get Twitter, oh I mean Y or X or whatever. GIMP is a cool name imo.

    • pop@lemmy.ml
      1·
      6 months ago

      This can’t be stressed enough.

      Your personal preferences are not the problem of the FOSS community. If it’s a problem for you, fork it and do as you please.

  • FruitLips@lemmy.ml
    2·
    6 months ago

    Someone oughta tell this journalist my gimp ass takes issue with their calling my condition, ‘controversial and problematic’.

  • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Are you drunk?

    The entire point of FOSS is to create alternatives to paid and proprietary software

  • superfes@lemmy.world
    01·
    6 months ago

    That’s funny, an entire article dedicated to the name of GIMP acting like it’s the only problem with that shitty software, still feels like 1995, still can’t do anything it should be able to do.

    30 years, and it still sucks.

    Glad the article really focused on the primary shortcomings of the software >_>