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you've missed the shitshow about renaming GIMP a year or two ago. I tried looking for it now, but it seems the threads got purged
by throwaway2077 5y ago
you've missed the shitshow about renaming GIMP a year or two ago.
I tried looking for it now, but it seems the threads got purged
- salmonellaeater 5y agoThere's an article on The Register about it [1], which includes a helpful link to the archived threads [2]. A quote from the article: > "I have, on two occasions now, recommended this program to photography and graphic design educators (as an alternative to Photoshop) who told me that they considered it and found it good as software but weren't permitted by their institution to use it in the classroom because of the name." [1] https://www.theregister.com/2019/08/28/gimp_open_source_image_editor_forked_to_fix_problematic_name/ https://www.theregister.com/2019/08/28/gimp_open_source_imag... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20190705030057/https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/3617 https://web.archive.org/web/20190705030057/https://gitlab.gn...
- throwaway2077 5y agothat's the one, thanks