Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT

Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by pvaldes on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @06:07AM (#20993378)

Hum, this had escalated quickly, with all the fake news and duck hunting and the strange patterns seen in the last months about how we need a better name for gimp, for moral reasons none less, how great is that apple has now an equivalent to 'festival' and other small strange things.

Open source is in a really complicated moment for its survival. Is like we would had arrived to a sort ot 'extinguish and replace' phase.

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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by balaksakrionon on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @01:27PM (#20997777)

Has there been renewed chatter for possibly renaming GIMP? I have been out of the loop but it would be such a shame for the program to be renamed

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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by pvaldes on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @05:19PM (#21000199)

Some days ago it was discussed (here) that Gimp was forked in fact. Apparently just because some people "found offensive" the name Gimp (Something that could be seen as an obvious attempt to first degrade the brand, then appropriate as own new invention, and finally phagocyte it. Has happened before with other programs that were slightly modified and then heavily advertised).

Updated, link here: https://itsfoss.com/gimp-fork-glimpse/

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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by balaksakrionon on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:18AM (#21006304)

Thanks for the update

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