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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

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330 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.253s | source
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jrm4 ◴[12 Dec 25 00:15 UTC] No.46239281[source]▶
I'll die on the proverbial hill that the absolute worst instance of this has always been GIMP, which could have perhaps eaten Adobe's lunch MANY years ago.

It was and perhaps still is, a solid competitor to Photoshop, but any unfamiliar grownup is, quite reasonably, going to never ever ever trust anything to do serious work with a name like that.

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1. squigz ◴[12 Dec 25 11:43 UTC] No.46243210[source]▶
> which could have perhaps eaten Adobe's lunch MANY years ago.

That "perhaps" is doing a whole lot of work in that sentence. GIMP has never, even now, been a serious competitor to Adobe's products for professionals. To suggest that if they simply had a better name they would be the top dog is laughable.