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I could see it's name as an impedance toward adoption in a corporate environment. The name "GIMP" certainly doesn't inspire confidence in someone who's never heard of it before. GLIMPSE, a fork of GIMP, certainly has a better name.

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I don't think funny names hinder tool adoption. Photoshop is the standard because it's a better tool than Gimp, although it's non-free.

Companies adopted Git. They'll adopt Gimp if it's better than Photoshop.

FWIW, "git" doesn't have an insulting meaning to most people in the US. "Git" can mean "go" in some US dialects. I would guess that the average person here has no idea that "git" has any kind of negative connotation.

On the other hand, in the US, "gimp" is always either an insult, a derogatory verb, or the open source project.

Git is pretty universally known as referring to an ignorant and unpleasant person.

This is the perfect description for the git command.

No, it's really not. Inside the UK, your statement is true, but inside the US, most people have never heard of this.

Hmm, I'm Australian and it's very well known

Again, Australia and the UK are not like the US, and have different slang.

Where universe fits in the borders of USA.

Our IT could care less.The name seems to rezonate in certain, puritan areas of the world.

You are thinking about one of the two meanings of the term, how about the other one? Ableism is bad, and that's got nothing to do with puritanism.

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