On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Viktor Kojouharov <vkojouharov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not trying to beat a dead horse here or anything like that. I'm just > wondering whether during the great discussions of old about changing the > name of the program, the name 'Wilber' was considered? Wilber sounds > like a good name not just for a mascot, but for gimp as well. No > acronyms, no play on words, no hidden meanings (that I know of). Not this again... :( Anyone who is offended by the acronym GIMP (or words in general) ought to step back and take a long look at atrocities commited every day: humans killing each other (often in the name of religion), humans allowing others to starve, and the list goes on... This world faces far larger problems than a bit of wordplay. So many people suffered horribly at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition that I am offended by any symbol depicting the Roman Catholic Church - but I hardly go around asking every church to take down their crucifixes - life's too short ;) Here we have humans working together for free to deliver a free - as in freedom - photo editor. I believe nothing short of a fork is going to change the name, and I respect that decision. Those who are "offended" should lighten up a bit - they'll live longer ;) These are only my own opinions of course, and do not reflect the positions of GIMP or Gnome in any way... Chris _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
