Hi Andrew.
Andrew Keene (amkeen3@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Are you aware of any hacktivists involved with your development who
> might use Denial of Service attacks against open source competitors?
> You software is pretty good for a free open source image editing
> program, but I have on several instances had the following experience:
>
> 1. Sometimes, after installing GIMP, my system acts as if it has
> been hacked and I have to reinstall everything.
> 2. On several instances, I have found that sites like Krita.org
> become unavailable when I attempt to download their software.
>
> Is it possible that some worthless, petty piece of shit is
> manipulating your very generous contribution to the world to further
> an agenda of sociopathy? Do you thoroughly vet contributors for their
> totalitarian goals?
We are unaware of any activity in this direction and we are certain that
the binaries distributed by us (gimp.org) don't contain anything that
targets competitor products.
That having said we have seen instances where gimp downloads from other
sites were tainted with code not approved by us, hampering the user
experience of the victim. If you've downloaded Gimp from any source and
find it containing stuff you think that shouldn't be there, then we'd
like to know about this including the site you've downloaded GIMP from,
so that we can actually issue a specific warning.
And for the records: we - speaking for the gimp development team here -
are perfectly happy with people choosing their tool according to their
tastes, we're perfectly fine if someone prefers Photoshop, Krita or
anything else over GIMP.
Bye,
Simon
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