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GIMP Dev when AI cloned Photoshop went viral

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It's not that.

Photographers went from Photoshop to lightroom quite quickly.

And other proprietary tools as well.

On the open source front many graphics people went to Inkscape instead of gimp.

Gimp methodology and UX is not landing with the majority of people and it's not offering them enough workflow improvements to justify the learning curve.

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FAQ: Yes, We Support Kinect

This is why you should always give your developer "free dev time" where they work on what they feel like, or what they think is important outside of the approved scope.

They have fun and will likely fix something your players will be asking for.

Someone is going to stream that 0.1% run on twitch and market the hell out of your game. Just look at Luality that completed dark souls with a DDR dancepad.

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XZ Utils (maintained single-handedly by Lasse Collin) is widely regarded as the most critical infrastructure library run by one person. Its near-catastrophic compromise in 2024 revealed how global digital security hinges on solo, thanklessly managed open-source projects. Other major examples include cURL (Daniel Stenberg) and SQLite (D. Richard Hipp)