

The GIMP was started because I wanted to make a Web page. You should understand that the GIMP and GTK weren't written to fill holes in the software available under the GPL (GNU General Public License) and LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License). On free software and the motivations to write it and what makes good and enduring free software: The only widgets I didn't write were the file-selection widget, the text widget, and the rulers. I probably wrote 95 percent of the original GTK code. This provided a fairly clean break that allowed us to work in parallel fairly easily. Spencer did much more work on the GIMP proper while I did much more on GTK. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Mattis graduated from Berkeley in 1997 with a B.S. Mattis was also a member of a student club at Berkeley called the eXperimental Computing Facility (XCF). While still a student in 1995, he developed the first version of GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), along with his roommate Spencer Kimball. Mattis attended the University of California at Berkeley. His work as a programmer includes launching GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) while still in college, and assisting the source code development of CockroachDB, the namesake software of Cockroach Labs. He is the CTO and co-founder for Cockroach Labs, a company he co-founded in 2014. Peter Mattis is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and business executive. BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
