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The GIMP project has purposely made it difficult to rename; patches making it easier to rename have been categorically rejected by the maintainers.

So, yes, people are currently talking about forking it.

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They should do that, instead of destroying over 20 years of work to make their name. Let's see in the end which program will prosper.

> destroying over 20 years of work to make their name.

Oh right. I forgot filing an issue presenting a calm and reasoned argument for changing one string of text to another was the same as "destroying" a project.

Snark is not acceptable on HN. And yes, making an established project change their name is destroying everything they had done for it under that name. They will have to start over from scratch and it will take years to reach the same level of name recognition.

You are really going to lecture on snark after your last comment?

You think

>"Let's see in the end which program will prosper."

is snark?

I guess snark is also in the eye of the beholder.

I didn't check the timestamps of all your comments so maybe it isn't your last comment. I'll let others here read through your comments (as I definitely did) and see if you made a snarky comment before lecturing others on snark. It might not be fair: snark is in the eye of the beholder, right? Oops, now I'm being snarky.

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