The discussion became bad-tempered and caught the attention of Bobby Moss, whose day job is a technical writer at Oracle. Others opined that changing the name of long-established software would hurt its recognition and usage.

The proposal was supported by another developer, Leonora Tindall, who noted that 'I have, on two occasions now, recommended this program to photography and graphic design educators (as an alternative to Photoshop) who told me that they considered it and found it good as software but weren't permitted by their institution to use it in the classroom because of the name.' 'GIMP' does not give a hint towards the function of the app, and it's hard to market something that's either used as an insult or a sex reference. Acronyms are difficult to remember, and they end up pronounced instead of read as their parts. In addition to the pain of the definition, there's also the marketability issue. This is also the colloquial usage of the word. The most modern and often used version of the word 'gimp' is an ableist insult. A topic titled 'Consider renaming GIMP to a less offensive name,' opened by developer Christopher Davis, stated: I'd like to propose renaming GIMP, due to the baggage behind the name. The discussion has been hidden but is available on web archives here. The new fork springs from a discussion on Gitlab, where the source code is hosted. The name was originally an acronym for General Image Manipulation Program but this was changed to GNU Image Manipulation Program. GIMP is a longstanding project, first announced in November 1995.

Interview Glimpse is a fork of the popular open source image editor, GIMP, created primarily to offer the software under an alternative name.

Image editor gimp