Honest to gods, this conversation happened today, and it may have cost me a job opportunity. The customer was super impressed with my menu design and animation, and wanted to know who we got it from. When I said I did it, their face lit up! Too bad as soon as i said GIMP, they weren’t interested anymore. Has anyone else experienced this? What do you say in similar situations?

  • p0358@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    265·
    23 days ago

    Maybe in America? I can tell you in most of the world, nobody would even think to give a fuck about the name, it doesn’t mean anything. The word “gimp” isn’t even popular enough.

    This sounds like some weird copium: surely the app would take off and replace Photoshop long ago, if they just changed that damn name! There was one fork that thought that, with a different name, died shortly after creation. Because in reality nobody cares about the name.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      117·
      23 days ago

      I’m literally explaining to you the challenges I’ve had.

      In many schools, I brought libre office and ubuntu into the classroom. I taught a whole generation of kids about open source.

      Rather than recognizing that maybe there’s something off here, you shrug and say nobody really cares.

      You’re part of the problem.