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?
Why not rename it to Linux Image Manipulation Program?
Oh, wait…
Ok, then just Image Manipulation Program?
… oh shit.
LIMP and IMP aren’t even moving the proverbial scale on “weird name”.
What’s wrong with IMP?
short form of “
important”, “impressive”, “improve”, “impeccable”, “imp…?”4 color beads
When they make a non-GPL alternative to GIMP for the FreeBSD it will be called IMP.
It’s an unofficially reserved name.
It’s Linux so why not
Simple Open Creative Kit Software
SOCKS as an abbreviation is already in use for a proxy server protocol. ;)
GNU Image Editor, GIE.
Wonder if that’s offensive in any language.
Can this work?
Or like Krita, no acronym whatsoever - just a cool name
Really? I see no reason for why the people who care too much what other meanings a name could possibly have shouldn’t reject also that name on some ridiculous ground, like for example that it sounds childish “this is serious work, I won’t do it with crayons like a child” or that the Ku Klux Klan used to be famous for using the letter K so there surely must be some connection there or any other insane imagined connection.
Lol, I suppose. One should stand their grounds and be proud of what they use. And if someone has a false impression of me because of that, correct it obviously and move on. Let them know that we aren’t as superficial as having names/words being held against us; that’s extremely judgmental.