[jacobjuul]

Do you also take offense on the word GNOME? which the dictionary defines as "a small ugly person".

How about DALCOP? Which means a particularly stupid person.

Apple (North America) an American Indian (Native American) who is "red on the outside, white on the inside". Used primarily by other American Indians to indicate someone who has lost touch with their cultural identity. First used in the 1970s.

[CydeWeys]

No, the dictionary defines a gnome as "a legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the earth's treasures underground". You're using a variant definition. Gnomes as commonly understood are mythical (i.e. not real) creatures. I've never heard anyone be offended by "GNOME". You can't just make up offensiveness where none actually exists.

Contrast with the word "midget", which does refer to real people and is offensive, and would be a bad name for a software project. Same for "gimp".