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Is it April fool?
What in earth...gl
Gimp is perfectly fine name...
WTF
Lol
It's really not ok.
If FOSS is going to make headway in business and among the non-technical, names should be descriptive and not based on some edgy humor a dev thinks is high comedy.
@Krudler @Shimitar so GIT and GitHub is next
"Git" is only really a word in British English which implicitly gives it lower worldwide cultural penetration than a general English term. For most non-British programmers (and honestly I would imagine many British ones given how ubiquitous Git VC is now), "Git" refers to the software first and the pejorative second, if they've even heard of the latter before.
Nobody knows what a “gimp” is supposed to be.