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I'm afraid the message didn't get through. Let me try it once again, for the last time: the issue is not in amount of donations and where they come from. It's in communicating requirements of the project to its user base. This is No.1 priority to fix.

Thus far the project was worked on by people who are attached to it whatever the name is. And this is exactly what the project needs: dedicated contributors, people who do things. I've been watching the project for a little over a decade and I've yet to see someone who argued about the name and still contributed to the project.

Which only proves that there are people who talk and argue, and there are people who do. If some people can't let go of self-inflicted offense, there's not much there can be done for them.

The question is not about gain. It never was, it never will be. There is a whole infrastructure around GIMP: websites, books and so on. There's no gain in messing the whole thing up just because some people are undereducated to know what an acronym is.

I see that you are set in your views, I don't think you'll be able to see the point I'm making.

Edited 2011-01-10 05:48 UTC

Well donations are obviously somewhere on the priority list given that you thanked someone in this thread for donating and noted it would be possible to hire someone else with enough revenue. You also acknowledged that GIMP needs more people and you haven't denied that open source donations come disproportionately from the US.

I'm going to make a program that works with The Gimp called The Fag....Fast Animation Generator. Any Americans that get offended need to just understand the acronym. If you get offended you just aren't choosing to understand it properly so it is your fault.

I could get the project farther if I hired someone else so Americans please donate to The Fag.

FWIW: China's GDP is > $9 Trillion.

The US GDP is > $14 Trillion.

That's with PPP factored in, not straight GDP.