• Da Oeuf@slrpnk.net
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    2 days ago

    It would also instantly make it impossible to find for everyone who knows it as GIMP, and mean that users of the new version wouldn’t see any of the huge amount of existing tutorials for it.

    The word only really has two meanings in one country anyway (the US).

    • saigot@lemmy.ca
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      20 hours ago

      There are quite a few pieces of software that have 2 different branding. For instance the windows file searcher agent ransack also goes by “file locator pro” to keep from scaring the corpos.