Bring Out The Gimp

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We, the undersigned, kindly ask all major distributions not to cripple their release CD's by removing important applications like OpenOffice.org, GIMP, and others.

These applications may have their set of problems. Granted. Let's work on them as well.

However, removing such important applications in order to save space for any "current trendy application" just because said application depends on bloated, problematic and polemic runtime environments reveals a worrysome mindset: form over substance.

If the functionality said application provides, is also provided by another application which is far leaner, then please fix the problems with the leaner applications rather than removing important applications such as The GIMP.

813 Signatures

  • Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
    • Comments
    • Petition author.
  • Rui Teixeira
  • Alberto Manuel Brandгo Simхes
  • Sebastian Billaudelle
  • enrique mercado
    • Comments
    • i don't think it's hard to use
  • Paulo A Ferreira
  • Luis Correia
  • Pieter Colpaert
    • Comments
    • I do not agree on the harsh language used but hey, The Gimp must stay
  • Jan Wildeboer
  • Jose David
    • Comments
    • Gimp saves the day for a long time now, dont kick the founders of the movement please!
  • Stijn Delbeke
  • Shade
    • Comments
    • Bring it back!!
  • Ade Bradshaw
  • Kirsti Stien
  • Czilly Gergely
    • Comments
    • If you need space, remove Mono and its dependents. They have way more issues.
  • Patrick McFarland
  • Roy Schestowitz
  • Eustбquio Rangel
    • Comments
    • One of the first questions of a "regular user" going to GNU/Linux is "is there a Photoshop there?"
  • Henry Hamon
  • Michel Filipe
  • Douglas Campos
  • Thiago Galbiatti Vespa
    • Comments
    • Gimp - a must have application
  • Josemar Andrade
  • Tiago Kaphan
  • Kadir Yьcel
  • Verne
    • Comments
    • I hate novell and microsoft
  • Alessandro Dourado
  • Eric Legrand
    • Comments
    • No Mono/Silverlight on Linux until it goes completly open source with a GPL licence
  • David Gerard
    • Comments
    • Roy Schestowitz rapes little boys. Burn in hell, Linux Zealots.
  • Michel Graciano
  • Patrick Melo
  • Jeremy
    • Comments
    • I support this petition
  • Benjamin Romer
  • Eric Padman
    • Comments
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  • Eduardo da Silva
  • Lars Noodйn
    • Comments
    • Digital image editing is an essential part of daily computing activities at home and at work. There have been petitions for Adobe to sell Photoshop for Linux for years, but to no avail despite the potential market. Gimp is different, but nonetheless powerful enough for many professional uses and easy enough for kids and novices. Taking gimp off install cds would block low-bandwidth users from having it and thus from being able to digital graphics. Keep gimp on board.
  • Clement Richard
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    • The GIMP is an important application.
  • Hans Stoop
  • MichaЕ MasЕowski
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    • В
  • James Hadley
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    • Why remove The Gimp for microsoft ??
  • Robert Cikovic
  • astralknight
    • Comments
    • Roy Schestowitz knows who I am. He paid me to see the search engines. After several of my online accounts were banned, he told me to stop posting except in COLA where I'm known simply as "7".
  • _Goblin
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    • If you say anything bad about my lover, Roy Schestowitz, you'll have to deal with me. I'm big & scary. I have a really important web site. People listen to me. They really do. I'm serious. I'm an important person in the GNU/Linux world.
  • Brandon L
    • Comments
    • Keep Gimp!
  • Alexandre Wallimann
  • J. Campo
  • Matthias Kranz
  • Darren Bell
    • Comments
    • This is an easy program to use. Used for screenshots and image conversion. The new single doc layout will make it even more use freindly. Please keep in the default install.
  • Dann
    • Comments
    • If space is so much of an issue, don't replace it with mono. FInd something more useful.
  • Mark Fink