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necoveklast Friday at 3:32 AM1 replyview on HN

Then Gimp is also a great name, right? GNU-is-not-Unix Image Manipulation Program: immediatelly obvious what it does as soon as you learn what the acronym stands for.

Or Gtk even: Gnu-is-not-Unix Image Manipulation Program ToolKit (later changed to refer to Gnome instead of Gimp I believe).


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zemlast Friday at 10:58 AM

and gdk was, delightfully enough, the gnu's not unix image manipulation program toolkit drawing kit