Sometimes. But The GIMP has an awful name, and I still use it anyway.

In American English, “gimp” is a rude way to refer to a disabled person. The fact that the project is American-based and created by the Free Software Foundation is clearly indicative of major cultural problems at the FSF—ones likely induced by Richard Stallman’s own bizarre social views.

And yet, there are still people who insist that this complaint is done in bad faith. But when I have this scene play out (content warning: it’s the rape scene from Pulp Fiction, starting around “Bring out the Gimp”) as my first association with the word “gimp” and get called a bad actor for suggesting that this is a bad thing, it tells me that the free software movement is incapable of professionalism. It tells me that the FSF is still in the hands of deeply immature people who think that being rude is funny.

The only good news is that the FSF can’t function without Richard Stallman, so they’ll soon stop functioning as perhaps the worst advocates for their own ideas.