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Gimp is amazing, I'm always curious, how does GNU project keep maintaining all of these high quality software for free? do they get a lot of money from donation? where do the fund comes from to feed the developers who maintain all of these?

regardless, congrats for the release! I wish them all the luck and thanks for supporting the software community

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Donations are used to pay the core developers of GIMP:

https://www.gimp.org/donating/

Most work on GNU software is either done unpaid by volunteers or paid for by companies like RedHat who spend engineer time on it.

The etymology of the name notwithstanding, Gimp is not a GNU project.

[Citation needed]

https://www.gimp.org/ still describes it as the GNU Image Manipulation Program in the <title>, in giant all caps letters at the top, and a third time at the center of the first screenfull of the main page ("This is the official website of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)."). https://www.gimp.org/about/ also links to the GNU Project under "Important GIMP Links."

You are right. I don't know why I was under the impression that Gimp had moved away from the GNU project.

Gimp is listed as a GNU package: https://www.gnu.org/software/software.en.html#allgnupkgs

Unfortunately I can neither edit not delete my inaccurate comment.

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