• Krudler@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    It’s really not ok.

    If FOSS is going to make headway in business and among the non-technical, names should be descriptive and not based on some edgy humor a dev thinks is high comedy.

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      2 hours ago

      Like “plasma”?

      Yeah names is important, but come on, Blender?

      Gimp is only a problemi for an handfull of english speaker americans. 90% of people in the world dont care.

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      4 hours ago

      If the name were the problem then why doesn’t someone fork the project and change only the name? <- actual question, not trying to be a smartass

      In either case they are starting from ~zero name recognition.

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        3 hours ago

        “Git” is only really a word in British English which implicitly gives it lower worldwide cultural penetration than a general English term. For most non-British programmers (and honestly I would imagine many British ones given how ubiquitous Git VC is now), “Git” refers to the software first and the pejorative second, if they’ve even heard of the latter before.