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Be careful. The language police have already got rid of "master". They were eyeing up gimp for a takeover or rename but I don't think it got very far. Perhaps all their energy was spent on removing the slavery from git.




Sorry, I do have to say "touch grass" here.

It's not about "me being personally offended."

It's about professionalism. It's a tradeoff. I see both sides of getting rid of e.g. "master;" but GIMP is so well beyond. Even if you make the argument that it's not offensive you're still stuck with a name that absolutely connotes "this thing is not going to be good at things."




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