• corbinOP
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    7 months ago

    Right, ultimately it’s their project and they can do what they want, but it’s also their loss every time some person or organization skips it because of the name.

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      7 months ago

      I agree with this, but in open source there’s an extra layer of complexity: the “I don’t care about market share” dev attitude that’s sometimes admirable and sometimes frustrating.

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        7 months ago

        There aren’t actual numbers because you can’t poll for that. There’s not a database somewhere that keeps track of every teacher or manager that says “ew” when someone brings up GIMP. There are some documented examples, though, some of which are listed in the article.

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          You can survey users of photo editing software and ask something like:

          • have you heard of GIMP?
          • have you used GIMP?
          • if not, why? name, features, ux, etc