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Be careful. The language police have already got rid of "master". They were eyeing up gimp for a takeover or rename but I don't think it got very far. Perhaps all their energy was spent on removing the slavery from git.

Sorry, I do have to say "touch grass" here.

It's not about "me being personally offended."

It's about professionalism. It's a tradeoff. I see both sides of getting rid of e.g. "master;" but GIMP is so well beyond. Even if you make the argument that it's not offensive you're still stuck with a name that absolutely connotes "this thing is not going to be good at things."

If I have to "wait and learn about it" then it's not the same, now is it?

Except in the US and Canada most people don't even know the original meaning of 'git'. We don't use that word.