Z:gnu-www-ja-edu-software-gimp--575d64-The restrictions imposed on us/en

The restrictions imposed on users by proprietary software developers serve to attack other layers of society as well, specially the upper spending classes, since those are their main target. Artists and computer graphics professionals often get trapped in perpetual dependency from a company that may decide at any moment to discontinue the product if it is not profitable any longer; or it may decide to introduce updates that run only on specific platforms &mdash;most likely nonfree. So users have no choice but to keep the old version of the program or else invest in a new operating system.