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First: doing harm to who? Gimp's an open source software that's been a boon to the community for a long time. I don't even use it, but I welcome its existence -
by knighthack 4y ago
First: doing harm to who? Gimp's an open source software that's been a boon to the community for a long time. I don't even use it, but I welcome its existence - it's not a virus, nor is it a bad influence upon the world since most people not inclined to use Gimp can stick to alternatives.
> But because it exists it means someone who would do it better has less incentive to do so.
That makes no sense. There are a ton of great image editors always striving to do better in the same domain - Affinity, Paint.NET, Photoscape, Canva, etc.
- kuschku 4y agoIf GIMP did not exist, maybe we’d see more developers contributing to Krita?
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoAffinity - Paid, Closed source, no Linux version Paint.NET - Closed source, Windows only Photoscape - Closed source, no Linux version Canva - Closed source, subscription webapp None of these fill the niche GIMP has claimed and I just feel in whatever alternate reality where the creators of GIMP never made it that someone else would have made an app that would manage to ship adjustment layers within a decade.