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A fight is brewing over ads in the ‘open-source Photoshop’

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 1, 2015

Far from just being that character in Pulp Fiction, GIMP is also an open-source alternative to Photoshop that’s given away freely for all to use.

Unfortunately, there’s been a kerfuffle between the project’s creators and SourceForge, one of the places that the software is available to download. The latter stands accused of adding for-profit adware to its version of GIMP, which is a big no-no amongst the free and open-source software community.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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