Glimpse fork of GIMP is proof how sensitive we became online, who gives a shit if GIMP is offensive word in some language? I'm pretty sure that its devs didn't want to offend anyone, this is just stupid
@trwnh
I'm against spreading of stupidity among people because I care about them, I can't explain you this enough.
@nikolal is it really that "stupid" to say "hey maybe we shouldn't name our program after a slur", or "maybe some people are unable to use a program with such a hurtful name"?
@trwnh
There are 7k+ languages, its stupid to change well established name of good product to something else because some of those 7k+ languages find it offensive
@nikolal the language is english. but also, the language is not relevant; what is relevant in language is how your words are understood. there is no reason to keep a bad name. there is *especially* no reason to keep a bad name that is hurting other people because of how bad it is.
@blacklight447 @nikolal a lot of people with physical disabilities would disagree.
@trwnh @nikolal what would be more important: brand recognition build it over 25 years, or keeping 2/3 people on the internet satisfied, I would know what I would choose. Look I get that you can't go offending people, but you can't just keep changing your name every time a few people online use it as a curse word. That's not realistic.
@blacklight447 @nikolal The "brand recognition" is nearly nonexistent, and worth less than the potential audience that would be open to using the software if the name was different. "Have you tried using The GIMP?" does not sound like a software recommendation.
@trwnh
You didn't make any good points. GIMP is well known software in image editing community as first alternative to Photoshop
@blacklight447
@nikolal @blacklight447 ok, now think outside of the "image editing community".
@trwnh
Ok, now make some sense
@blacklight447
@nikolal @blacklight447 how does it not make sense to you? it's very simple. real people are turned away by the name. so much so, in fact, that a fork was made primarily to change the name. for some reason, you think this is stupid -- that's what doesn't make sense to me. you bring up hypothetical, not-real things.
@trwnh @nikolal again, your over blowing this whole issue, till today I haven't even herd gimp was a curse word at all. Again changing your name just because people utilize it as a curse word is not realistic. Like what, if people start using the name Linux as a sysnonym for the word moron, should we start naming the entire Linux foundation + kernel as well?
@blacklight447 @nikolal many times, people were told to fork it if they cared about the name so much. well, now there's a fork, and those same people are saying it shouldn't have been forked. that, to me, tells me they never cared about the needs of people. they just wanted to silence criticism.
@blacklight447 @nikolal that's different. the gnu imp developers chose the name intentionally in reference. they knew what they were doing. it's not like it was an accidental slur. there are many better names that are not currently slurs. the whole point is apparently moot because the devs simply do not care about the people who are called the slur, hence the fork.