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
    20·
    5 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.

  • FruitLips@lemmy.ml
    18·
    5 months ago

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

  • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    5 months ago

    Are you drunk?

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

    • Lemongrab@lemmy.one
      10·
      5 months ago

      The difference between FOSS and proprietary (to me) is the motive. FOSS projects are often created out of a genuine need/want to solve a problem. Proprietary may also be trying to solve a problem (we can’t through all of them under the bus because we live in a capitalist system which limits our options, we need to survive before thrive). I still find that proprietary often is just created for profit, and as profit motivated software it has an incompatible goal to actually fixing the problem.
      A good (profitable) proprietary app won’t fix any problem, but instead exacerbate it to maintain the reason for its continued existence, all while eliminating competition.

  • superfes@lemmy.world
    834·
    5 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 >_>