Honest to gods, this conversation happened today, and it may have cost me a job opportunity. The customer was super impressed with my menu design and animation, and wanted to know who we got it from. When I said I did it, their face lit up! Too bad as soon as i said GIMP, they weren’t interested anymore. Has anyone else experienced this? What do you say in similar situations?
Does the naming of the software maybe precede the popularity of the movie Pulp Fiction? Was the naming done by people who don’t speak English natively? Do you also suffer like this when you want to remark on a pretty great tit on a tree?
GIMP was released in 98, Pulp Fiction in 94 and it was and remains a very influential movie. So yeah, seems likely intentional.
1995 but yeah. The 1998 date that shows up at the top of search engines and shit LLMs is the 1.0 release.
I’d point out in their defense that it was just a couple college kids making a fun side project; OP blaming them for apparently costing them a job 30 years later seems harsh.
https://www.gimp.org/about/prehistory.html
From: Peter Mattis Subject: ANNOUNCE: The GIMP Date: 1995-11-21 Message-ID: <48s543$r7b@agate.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.windows.x.appsi believe they explicitly named it after the character in pulp fiction
personally i’m not blaming them too much for being a bunch of young assholes choosing an edgy name (reminder that it’s an ableist slur first and foremost) 30 years ago.
i am 100% blaming them for never changing it and outright refusing to change it.
98 is the date listed by Wikipedia as the “initial release”
edit: just explaining where the date came from, jackass.
Where’d that come from? Seems unnecessarily hostile. Sounds like you need to get some fresh air.
Downvoting me for posting the date seems pretty childish. So that was directed at whomever felt that necessary.
I actually didn’t downvote you until after you posted that edit. And even if that wasn’t the case, it’s still absurdly thin-skinned and unpleasant to lash out like that over a single downvote.
No worries. I just thought it was some petty shit. You shouldn’t feel the need to keep insulting me with your responses anymore, as Ive blocked you