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.
GNU Image Editor, GIE.
Wonder if that's offensive in any language.
LIMP and IMP aren't even moving the proverbial scale on "weird name".
What's wrong with IMP?
When they make a non-GPL alternative to GIMP for the freebsd it will be called IMP.
It's an unofficially reserved name.
short form of "~~important~~", "~~impressive~~", "~~improve~~", "~~impeccable~~", "imp...?"
It's Linux so why not
Simple Open Creative Kit Software
SOCKS as an abbreviation is already in use for a proxy server protocol. ;)