[whisps]

Isn't that the beauty of OSS? People can fork projects for whatever reason they want to.

They are not at all hostile to GIMP--they encourage donating to the GIMP org--but I think their reasons for an alternative are sound:

Glimpse Image Editor is an optional alternative intended to assist users that are offended or made uncomfortable by the "gimp" name, and assist free software advocates that encounter barriers when they recommend the GNU Image Manipulation Program to friends, family, coworkers and employers.

However, Glimpse does have some other differences from GIMP which might interest you:

We also focus on making the software more "enterprise ready" so it is easier to modify and distribute for schools and workplaces. That means fewer "easter eggs", improved build and packaging tooling/documentation, backported fixes on a known-stable base we support for at least a year, and a more efficient Windows installer. We also plan to have a more predictable release cadence, as that will assist IT departments with their software deployment schedules.

https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse

[enriquto]

> We also focus on making the software more "enterprise ready" so it is easier to modify and distribute for schools and workplaces. That means fewer "easter eggs",

Honestly, I don't understand how can people be so severely misguided. If one place would benefit greatly for easter eggs in free software is precisely a school.

But if they are backporting useful documentation, well, it's alright. There's nothing wrong with a fork, but the stated reasons are dumb.

[frenchyatwork]

> Honestly, I don't understand how can people be so severely misguided.

Sounds like a good description of school administration to me.

Creativity is critical to a good education, but it's also difficult to measure. Educators want to be able to show (to themselves and others) that they're being effective in a measurable way, so unless you're being creative in a specific and controlled fashion, it's a distraction.

[jansan]

They can do with their time whatever they want, but creating a fork to remove all light-hearted and fun parts of a software feels a bit dumb.

[mtmail]

The write 'fewer', not to remove all. And it's one of many changes listed, not the main one.

[karatestomp]

Even Excel has (had?) a secret flight sim.

[throwanem]

If Gimp implementors had spent less time on "light-hearted and fun" and more on boring but actually important stuff like rendering text well, I might not have spent the last decade or so steering everyone I possibly can away from Gimp and toward Photoshop for professional work.

I took a chance on the Gimp because I believed in the cause - I wanted it to be a viable alternative to Photoshop. It very nearly cost my firm a contract big enough that losing it would probably have put us out of business - and would certainly have put me out of a job. Software that screws up that badly doesn't get a second chance.