Unreal. Okay, here in Canada the google search I indicated brings up the following in order of top ranking:
1) The first is this link where someone with Cerebral Palsy is discussing the term Gimp and other "derogatory terms" http://www.flspinalcord.us/FSCIRC-Directors-Blog.cfm 2) The second link hits Wikipedia, with the very first part of the excerpt on the search indicating "Gimp is usually a derogatory term .." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimp_(sadomasochism) 3) The third link goes to The Linux Advocate blog where the author is comparing Gimp vs. Photoshop and what do you suppose is the first item on his list .. "The Name". http://thelinuxadvocate.blogspot.com/2006/08/gimp-vs-photoshop-what-stil l-needs-to.html These go on and on, but perhaps it's only a North American cultural effect. My point remains the same. Yosh, with an e-mail address at gimp.org I'd count you on the side of proud long term or regular contributor who is simply not going to see any other side. If you can point out a single commercial product that has mass use in North America that has a derogatory term in it's title, I'll withdraw my critique and be gone. I consider the quality of the GIMP on par with much commercial software, but it has an image problem (pun however you want it). Roland; -----Original Message----- From: Manish Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Manish Singh Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 2:46 PM To: Roland Hordos Cc: Sven Neumann; gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Please Change the Derogatory Name On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:38:02PM -0600, Roland Hordos wrote: > >> can you proove your claim? > Sigh. Try googling "is gimp a derogatory term". If you read the > sources at the first 10 hits and you still don't understand, then try > the next 15000. That is not proof. Search for just plain "gimp" on any major search engine, and the majority of the links refer to this project. In fact, changing the name of the project would hurt adoption more, by giving up search engine presence, and having a fairly easy to remember four letter name as a search term to begin with. > Sven, coincidentally while I began to read your response I received a > call from an engineering user here wanting to edit a scanned document > with Paint or Photoshop. I can't justify the cost of photoshop for 100 > desktops and paint is useless. I would install the GIMP software for > him in a heartbeat if I didn't worry that he might be offended by the > reference. Any corporate business environment has, or should have, this > sense of decency. Most corporate business environments would be in violation of their terms of governence by rejecting potential cost-savings solely on nebulous claims such as this. You probably should be reprimanded for this behavior. -Yosh _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
