As a designer who uses the latest development builds of GIMP every day in production, and also the latest Krita, I can confirm there is no such code in GIMP, nor in the 9 or so years in which I have used GIMP have I encountered any of the issues described. I've always gotten GIMP from GIMP.org and from official development repositories. Do be careful where you get your GIMP! -C On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, 23:04 Simon Budig, <simon@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- > simon@xxxxxxxx http://simon.budig.de/ > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > List membership: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list > _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
