gimp
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Legend
Consumer · Developer Tools
GIMP costs nothing. Keeping it free takes work.
The image editor born at Berkeley still lets anyone retouch, paint and build without a subscription. Behind the free download is a very human operation: volunteer developers, artist patrons and decades of unfinished business.
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Founder · Engineer · Executive
Spencer Kimball
Spencer Kimball is the co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, the company behind CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database built to survive almost anything you throw at it. Long before databases, he co-wrote GIMP as a Berkeley class project in 1995, spent roughly a decade as an engineer at Google working on its file-system guts, and built a photo startup that Square acquired. He named his database after the one creature famous for being nearly impossible to kill - which turned out to be the perfect pitch.
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