On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 11:33 +0200, Anna-Barbara Winzeler wrote:

Dear Community,

Swiss Journalist here. I am currently doing a reserach about Adobe's  CC-policy and its influence on the users. My thesis includes a shift to 
independent alternatives (which includes GIMP) and so I was looking for 
buisness reports of GIMP (since 2012 if possible), but I haven't found 
anything (which is a kind of a compliment if you want so).

Hi Anna-Barbara,

there are no business reports because GIMP is not a business :)

Can you help me? I know this isn't an "user"-question at all, but I  couldn't find any other way to contact anyone in this company.

There is no company behind GIMP, just a bunch of volunteers.

And yes, I know that you say you don't want to develop a photoshop- killer.

In fact, the goal is world domination... kidding :)

Kind regards,
Anna-Barbara

Ps. I'm only writing stories in german, so please excuse my bad use of 
the english language.

Alles gut! Your English is just fine.

Regards, Mitch

Am 16.09.2016 um 11:33 schrieb Anna-Barbara Winzeler:

Dear Community,

Swiss Journalist here. I am currently doing a reserach about Adobe's CC-policy and its influence on the users. My thesis includes a shift to independent alternatives (which includes GIMP) and so I was looking for buisness reports of GIMP (since 2012 if possible), but I haven't found anything (which is a kind of a compliment if you want so).

Can you help me? I know this isn't an "user"-question at all, but I couldn't find any other way to contact anyone in this company.

Anna-Barbara,

there is no company behind GIMP. And because GIMP comes preinstalled with most Desktop Linux distributions (and because there's no Adobe Photoshop for Linux), GIMP has its widest user base among the Linux users. I bet there's no desktop Linux user who doesn't use GIMP from time to time.

If you need "use statistics" you have to get the download numbers of desktop linux distributions. For the DACH area, the most popular are Ubuntu, Linux Mint and OpenSUSE, I think. If you need it more international, your research would become extensive.

If for some reason only 1% of the Adobe Photoshop users would switch to GIMP, numbers would completely change. But because the GIMP people neither have control about distribution nor they have put a spy function into the software which tells about its use, they can't give you numbers.

Kind regards

Jan

As well as Linux, lots and lots of Windows users download (maybe not use so much and often repeat downloaders)

When Gimp was hosted on sourceforge, you could get statistics.

see: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SgdpycZP3TwJ:gimpforums.com/thread-how-many-people-use-gimp+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

In case that link scrambles the sourceforge traffic for Gimp http://i.imgur.com/gvQlvM8.jpg

I would assume that the level that dropped off when Gimp dropped sourceforge continued at gimp.org.

On 09/16/2016 02:53 PM, rich2005 wrote:

As well as Linux, lots and lots of Windows users download (maybe not use so much and often repeat downloaders)

When Gimp was hosted on sourceforge, you could get statistics.

see: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SgdpycZP3TwJ:gimpforums.com/thread-how-many-people-use-gimp+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

In case that link scrambles the sourceforge traffic for Gimp http://i.imgur.com/gvQlvM8.jpg

I would assume that the level that dropped off when Gimp dropped sourceforge continued at gimp.org.

I started using the GIMP when Tor Lillqvist's first Windows ports appeared, and have used it on Microsoft platforms ever since. These days I don't use any Microsoft products - they finally became completely obsolete in every context that matters to me - but I do know several people who use the GIMP on Windows 7 and 10. Considering the huge Microsoft user base, I would be surprised if GIMP users on Microsoft platforms don't outnumber users on Linux platforms by a substantial margin - but as per messages above, that's very hard to determine.

We have a large majority of Linux users posting on the list here, but that is most likely due to the strong connection between Linux and technical education / computer literacy. "Geeks" use mailing lists like this one, most others don't suspect they exist.

:o)

I work in a high school in Italy and I can definitely say tha GIMP is used widely in education under Windows and Mac as it is Free (in the meaning of like Freedom _and_ Free Beer) where people can't afford or want to use an alternative raster-graphic program other than Photoshop.

For the sake of honesty, I think you have to check also for Krita:

https://krita.org

as its user base is growing fast, even on GIMP ...

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Marco Ciampa

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