I don't the whole backstory, but I was a PIL user before Pillow was a thing. PIL was old and crusty and had barely been updated since about the Python 2.1 days.

I don't the whole backstory, but I was a PIL user before Pillow was a thing. PIL was old and crusty and had barely been updated since about the Python 2.1 days. While I don't know the details, I've always assumed that PIL was abandonware and the Pillow guys decided to reinvigorate it.