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Basically creative people by and large never subscribed to the idea that they should give away their creativity for free. So all the talented designers are empl
by orbifold 7y ago
Basically creative people by and large never subscribed to the idea that they should give away their creativity for free. So all the talented designers are employed and happily working on paid projects, especially less established ones get approached with ridiculous low offers all the time.
In short outside of the bizarre software/tech world very few subscribe to the idea that intellectual property should be shared and used freely.
- oblio 7y agoYou don't really debug a painting. That's why Open Source is big and Open Art isn't (to my knowledge)
- jancsika 7y agoI'd bet that isn't true and that plenty of artists can and do peruse places like deviantart and quickly improve upon someone else's images. But design for a GUI is more like industrial design. Getting a designer to help improve KDE's look-and-feel would be like squatters in a dilapidated hotel convincing an interior decorator to spruce the place up for fun. Actually, that sounds like it would be a blast. Perhaps open source people are simply terrible at marketing.