If we’re considering just the US, Canada, UK, NZ and Australia, that’s at least 470 million people for whom the name is problematic. As an enthusiastic Australian user, there’s no way I would recommend a program called GIMP to my higher-ups.
Unlike the towns of Bra or Fuck in Austria, the acronym GIMP was chosen specifically because of its edgy double meaning.
in corporate environments i’ve worked in in aussie for decades, the worst you can expect is a chuckle at the name.
yes, i’m sure there are more prudish organisations.
but it’s 100% wrong to equate all english speaking nations to the US dip shitery.
getting the average graphic designer to consider anything other then adobe is like getting IT to consider anything other then MS… that is holding adoption back far more then anything to do with the name.
If we’re considering just the US, Canada, UK, NZ and Australia, that’s at least 470 million people for whom the name is problematic. As an enthusiastic Australian user, there’s no way I would recommend a program called GIMP to my higher-ups.
Unlike the towns of Bra or Fuck in Austria, the acronym GIMP was chosen specifically because of its edgy double meaning.
in corporate environments i’ve worked in in aussie for decades, the worst you can expect is a chuckle at the name.
yes, i’m sure there are more prudish organisations.
but it’s 100% wrong to equate all english speaking nations to the US dip shitery.
getting the average graphic designer to consider anything other then adobe is like getting IT to consider anything other then MS… that is holding adoption back far more then anything to do with the name.
The acronym was chosen as a reference to a character in Pulp Fiction.
And just India has a population of 1.4 billion people, and it’s a single country.