Fascinating. We should put that in the splash screen of the official version. Now everybody that states that “Gimp” is offensive will look really dirty-minded.
You would’ve thought they would’ve learned from the Chevy Nova.
Nova = No Va = No Go
(Although Snopes indicates this wasn’t actually as detrimental as you would think it would be.)
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Penultimate Image Manipulation Program?
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@Unhammer Yup, that is the definition that I grew up with. Guess I am dated. 
I have also understood gimp as
Noun
3. The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
4. (dated, chiefly North Eastern US) Gumption
Verb
2. (dated) To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves.
Source: gimp - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
@pittendrigh Actually, that is the first thing I thought of; however, could be offensive to some, so my second thought was PIMPLE, which could be more offensive if you think about it hard enough.
Pineapple Image Manipulation Program Libre Edition
Free pineapples for everyone, everywhere!
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I’m learning a lot in this thread. When I was a kid, it refered to the guy in the circus that would bite off the heads of a snakes.
I think that was a “geek.”
so … ORACLE is in the back? … aaah
think there was something in the past … called Open Office
a scoundrel who thinks bad on this
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Now its even on Heise. (german tech news site)
I really dont get it.
On my system (CentOs) GIMP is only one time to read. And this is on the splash screen, which is easy to customize.
No one who just uses it would see GIMP anywhere there or know of it.
Everywhere else stands Gnu Image Manipulation Program.
So if it would be really the only problem in official institutions (or marketing in general) with the name than the admin just could change the splashscreen and refere to it as Gnu Image Manipulation Program instead of GIMP, which is only the acronym anyway.
And now that I know that someone from Oracle is forking GIMP, i become suspicious of the real motivation for that fork.
it stands for The GNU Image Manipulation Programme (miss off the final me if you’re American). This whole thread is utterly ludicrous, as is the reason for forking.
Developers of Open Source Software often fork, but it’s almost always for a good reason, like trying something new. To fork because of a name, which is in capitals and is therefore probably an acronym, without even asking what it stands for is utterly sublime. Unreal. The new tyne of this fork will, I feel, simply wither away.
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The GIMP is not the name, it’s an abbreviation. The name is The GNU Image Manipulation Programme (program to Americans).
I’d say this is way too much of an over generalization.
You may say as you wish. My experience dictates otherwise. There are, occasionally, very flaccid reasons for taking bat and ball home, as in this case. But they are the rarity, far from the generality.
Just like I wrote. The official long form of the acronym.
Whats your point with the nagging about it?
Just my three cents, let me try to desrcibe an anology:
If someone would fork RawTherapee (because he (she) does not like the pee at the end if the word, just giving it the name RawTherapy for example. What would change?
Imho not much. You may attract some people by doing that, but you can not get good developers out of nothing. The developers and also the testers and all the people which contribute to a project like GIMP or RT or whatever, do that because they want (or need) to use the software.
Names are just words. Functionallity counts.
I would buy my medicine (If I would need medicine) in a Mohren-Apotheke in Germany, but there are approaches to forbid that wording (though Mohre is derivred from Mauren, which signed, the Pharmacy sold meds from northern Africa, for a reason)
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Quoting Mondayman: “But most importantly: Is it really named “The” GIMP?”. Your understanding did appear to be confused, so I answered your question. it now appears you’ve read your OP.
The point, of course, is that there is a fork of a well established product. I first tried The GIMP in 2002, long before it was available on 'Doze or other proprietary platforms. The reason for forking now is not because of a difference of opinion in development direction or the overall team wishing to try two or more approaches to see which works best in which situations. It’s what sounds no more than a hissy fit. So where is it going?
If people wish to take such a course I have no objection. Nor do I have any objection to people wishing to discuss the matter at such a superficial level.
I am simply pointing out the facts as I see them and observing that without an attractive development plan giving a focus and direction for the fork, I can’t see them attracting either competent developers or funds in competition to an extremely popular, well functioning, cross-platform, pre-existing software doing exactly the same thing.
Isn’t it a hoax? 
I see.
I thought you wanted to correct my post right before yours, where I had the right words for the acronym.
To the post you refering to, I just never heard the term “The Gimp” before (at least not for the program) and wasnt sure. It sounds strange to me.
I also wouldnt call Photoshop “The Photoshop” or Krita “The Krita”.
The acronym of The GNU image manipulation program is surprisingly unfortunate I’ve found. When discussing it at work, where we use Photoshop, people do snigger when they hear the name. It does stand in the way of adoption around here, it being slow is of course a bigger problem.
There’s no accident companies spend millions on branding. It’s real. Despite this I don’t really mind the current name. Probably because I’ve got nothing at stake.
I’m for being more inclusive and avoiding being offensive to people who have disadvantages in our society. I’m very much for being offensive to those that have advantages. I doubt however the issue with the GIMP is disabled or kinky people. It’s much more likely to be corporate friction. GIMP just sounds a bit weird which is very dangerous to many companies and people who want to impress the corporate world.
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Probably. But now I hear a proprietary company may be involved, or at least some personnel thereof, I begin to wonder about the motive. Having said that, Oracle took over MySQL and have supported it under its original FOSS licence rather than using it for purely proprietary purposes.