Because I believe in the higher goal of free and open source software, which is more or less the same as the belief that knowledge should be shared -- and the s

Because I believe in the higher goal of free and open source software, which is more or less the same as the belief that knowledge should be shared -- and the space that GIMP occupies is one that I think a great deal of people would (have benefitted from) if it were to be disrupted from Adobe. No, I don't believe in hiding good software that can help a lot of people under a secret rock.