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Sigh. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

An extremely conservative church group is perhaps the worst place to try to figure this out; y'all will self-censor naturally.

Anyway, I teach IT, in a department -- shared with Communications -- and can absolutely assure you that this name is a no-go. I get that people don't like "politics" and "optics" and such, but that's what's happening here.

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I didn't say no-one gets upset by the name. I said that they're being silly gooses.

If your department wouldn't use free software because of the name, that's very much a them problem. And it's sad that they're so sensitive.

If you don't like the name, you don't have to use the software. Or fork it can call it something more anodyne to your sensibilities.

But no. You want everyone to cater to sensitive people. And thus, myself and others are here to say your comment is annoying when this comes up every thread that GIMP is mentioned.

This is something that non-english speakers have long learned to live with. It is due time that everybody accepts that some words will sound funny to them. In french, for example, "bit" means "penis". This creates quite a stir when you teach computer science to kids. Yet nobody says that computer science is a no-go!

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