Meme Context: “gimp” in english is a strong derogative slur for disabled people. People complain about the program name regularly as it makes hard to push for it both publicly (seen as silly) as well as within companies (seen as unprofessional and silly). The maintainer however believes they can redefine a 100 year old slur all on their own. Lower text “answers” inspired by this.
They want to keep it because it’s a double recursive acronym, GNU Image Manipulation Program, where “GNU” translates to “GNU’s Not UNIX.”
So clever.
It’s 2026. Can we please change the name to something NOT juvenile?