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This is Jehan Pages, the top developer behind GIMP, a free open source photo editor. Adobe executives hate Jehan. Because of his hard work, Adobe lost millions of dollars (lemmy.world)

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[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

… Y’all should check out Krita.

MyPaint too.

And others.

Imagemagick's not to be scoffed at either.

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Imagemagick’s not to be scoffed at either.

The ffmpeg of imaging.

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[–] enthusiasm_headquarters@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I like to point out to folks that pre-google Youtube was built on ffmpeg. You can set up streaming servers on it and all kinds of stuff. So who is stealing from whom... the pattern is theft from open source, not the other way around.

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