I was actually a regular user of GIMP for years before I learned that the word had any other definition. While working at a summer camp as a teenager, I happened to install it on an office computer. One day I'm doing some work in the office, when all of a sudden I hear one of the camp directors in the other room laugh and ask why some perverted program called "gimp" was in the list of applications.

Call it GNU IMP if it bothers you

Some classic FOSShead contrariness on their part. They shoulda used the major release to officially rename it to GNU IMP, if you ask me. GNU could use the publicity and an "imp" is definitely cuter than a "gimp".

Shouldn't it expand to GIMP IMP? Or GIMP IMP IMP? Or GIMP IMP IMP IMP IMP? Maybe the fixed point is G...IMP?

GNU/Linux/IMP

At some point they'll just have to grow up.

As much as do the people that get offended by the word "gimp", I guess.

How do they feel about unix daemons or the FreeBSD mascot?

My parents were quite tolerant of my devil worship[1], but they did tell me to hide my BSD Unix books when religious relatives visited.

[1] I think they knew Beastie was a harmless computer thing, but they also thought the moon was the size of a basketball.

And never mention chmod 666 or fsck...

When I was a teenager I wanted to try FreeBSD but got turned away by the daemon mascot.

I didn't want my christian conservative parents to keep berating at me as if I turned in to the devil for choosing a OS that has a mascot that resembles one.

They use Windows Server.

Angry/hateful often enough to cause trouble.

Or maybe they could all sit down for 5 minutes and think of a better name

But of course that won't happen