No shit

Everyone liked that.

Yes, thank you, this is correct.

The ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC (the american agency) is not pleased.

Yes, but that is, from a certain linguistic perspective, mispronouced. That was it’s literal name as an acronym at one point though.

I think the real reason it’s pronounced Guh-nome, is because there are no silent letters in acronyms.

It’s similar to the reason why SQL sounds like ess-cue-ell instead of a version of he word sickle that sounds like there was a submarine imploding in your mouth.
Singular letters are important in acronyms and always pronounced distinctively. And if they’re vocally strung together, that’s still distinctive.

Oh, I did not misunderstand, don’t worry. Still though, shite. And what you’re describing id just another angle on the problem of social construction of value. The thing is though, try a thousand times and it will work once and if people like it, it gets to stay in one form or another. We’ll get there.

Well shite.

I hope such sentiment on a broad scale doesn’t overwhelm ireland, leading to capitalists saying such a system doesn’t work and nobody ever implementing it again.

Well, he was probably “rich” in that he has acquired his own wealth, but I don’t think that’s what you mean.

I don’t actually see that though, taken a look at their repo, they only seemed to remove branding and easter eggs to distance themselves from the GIMP project. They even went so far as to linger on versions and not merge features from GIMP, so they were actually behind. That would be what I mean by hate fork. Nothing technically good has been done with the repo.

Edit: I think they wanted to change the UI abit too for better accessibility, which would actually be a technical change for once, but other than that I don’t see anything contributed to better software.

Sorry, badly phrased. If they actually changed stuff technically in their fork, then I see no reason why one would criticize that. That is literally what a fork is for.

You got the name of the fork? I’d be interested.

If they did change stuff technically whcih wouldn’t be adressed otherwise, then I don’t see a reason. Sounds like bad actors.

I did not even talk about harassment, that was you. But I agree, you shouldn’t harass people for this. Does not change that I am against hate-forks, which this did sound like at first.

What I meant by “when the time comes to fork, let’s use another name” was not “let’s fork it for the sole purpose of rebranding”. For me a good reason to fork a project would be governance. “Hate forks”, whatever the fuck that made up phrase may be, cause division, so I absolutely understand why people would be against this. That being said, malicious branding is more often than not connected to bad governance, so that would be interesting to find out.

This seems to be quite the nuanced issue, so this will be the last I said, but I would be hella interested to see some more viewpoints on this.

Thank you. I get that this can be problematic, but as a non english-native, I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. GIMP is a transnational project after all and as I understand they try their best to be (all)inclusive. Getting hung up on the very well established name and outright demanding (in another comment), seems a bit silly to me. Were it a more serious slur, one that may be more timely relevant, I would feel the same, but given what I just described, I don’t feel that harsh about it.

Very hot take: I actually prefer it having that name, because it can lead to that term not being recognized as a slur by newer generations. When being asked “Whats a gimp?” they might then answer “An image processor.”. Would eliminate a whole slur. And with time it might even go so out of fashion it gets eliminated from dictionaries. Instances of this exact phenomenon happening include, in developing order: Dude, Yankee, Nerd. Or if you want a devolvement: Bully, which used to mean sweetheart. Language is like that. Let the slur die.

That aside, I do not feel that Krita is better than GIMP technologically. I prefer both.

Perhaps when the time comes to fork the project we can avoid a slur as a name? That would be nice.

Are you yourself affected by this? Maybe I, as a non affected person, am misjudging.

Could you please explain what you mean by “professional ableist name”?

They probably get to a very good 80% and then never finish it, just like their kernel. 😫

Yeah, slightly charred.

*beans

And those mainframes once had my dick in it.