What a name! [LWN.net]

What a name!

Posted Jun 10, 2006 17:25 UTC (Sat) by TwoTimeGrime (guest, #11688)
In reply to: What a name! by arcticwolf
Parent article: Questions for deployments of GNOME

> "GNOME", on the other hand, is decidedly unsexy.

It's nowhere near as bad as "GIMP" which is, in my opinion, a truely terrible name for a program.

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What a name!

Posted Jun 11, 2006 22:04 UTC (Sun) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link] (2 responses)

Don't forget about "Hurd."

What a name!

Posted Jun 12, 2006 10:55 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Complaining about that name would be hurdful.

What a name!

Posted Jun 13, 2006 15:13 UTC (Tue) by danielpf (guest, #4723) [Link]

GNU is not better

What a name!

Posted Jun 13, 2006 6:25 UTC (Tue) by daniel (guest, #3181) [Link]

"It's nowhere near as bad as "GIMP" which is, in my opinion, a truely terrible name for a program

But cinepaint has a nice ring to it. I don't think the gimp crew truly cares about marketing and that's their prerogative. That is what project forks are for, and to be sure, gimp is a highly respectable piece of work in spite of its dodgy interface and lousy marketing.

Now if only somebody would fork Gnome...