Hot take of the day: we could have stopped Adobe ages ago if GIMP had any other name.
GIMP is nominative determinism applied to open source. If Fedora was named FUCKBOI, it would have failed too.
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GIMP spent a decade sucking the oxygen out of open source image editing because open source advocates would say "just contribute to the porn sextime fetish sadomaso image editor" and people would say "uhhhh. I'll just keep using Photoshop, or maybe donate my coding to, uh... a mouse driver or something..."
@Craigp
[Proposal for Community-Driven GnuImp fork]
@woozle @Craigp There was GLIMPSE: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/glimpse-0-2-0-beta
It ultimately did not last too long, and at this point it's based on a very outdated version.
I strongly suspect that the problem there was funding, as it often is with community-driven forks. This is, in my view, the big problem that we in the open source fan/ally community need to solve, somehow... 🪄
