• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    1 month ago

    Surely anyone who feels that it’s an urgent problem can make a fork which is fully identical in every way except for the logo and name and branding

    Since the amount of effort that would be required for that would be infinitesimal compared to what was already done to make the software

    And then produce all these good things which you say are being held back

    Or, wait, did you mean you wanted someone else to do that because you feel that it’s super important enough to insist that someone else should do it but not important enough to do yourself?

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      1 month ago

      As I recall someone made the same lame argument about the name being divisive, a fork was created called Glimpse and it fell on its face not long after it was formed. Things like this are a waste of energy, nobody cares that it’s called gimp.

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        I mean, just because you don’t care doesn’t mean nobody does.

        If I was running a school where students with physical challenges attended, I would not feel comfortable asking them to use software called Gimp, so I would just avoid it.

        That said, I would avoid it anyways in favor of Krita, I’m just saying.

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        Yeah, I mean glimpse seems fine; in general it seems completely fine if someone says “hey I think this is a problem for some percent of people who have weird priorities in life because they are corporate or weird thinking, I support the idea to solve it and make a friendly name for them”

        It’s just that if the response is “yeah that percent of people are not our problem, we just want to make this project and we did, thank you and good day”, then you need to be able to say “ok I will make the fork to fix it then” instead of writing up a big blog post demanding that they need to obey you on what your opinion of the priorities for their own project should be.