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This is an interesting challenge. But, up until today, the problem is, except for maybe Firefox, there is no GPL desktop software, that is good enough to get so
by Torwald 6y ago
This is an interesting challenge. But, up until today, the problem is, except for maybe Firefox, there is no GPL desktop software, that is good enough to get sold, regardless of licence.
(No, the GIMP is not good enough to do professional graphic design work. Etc etc pp)
- ognarb 6y agoBlender and Krita come to my mind in term of professional graphic applications. There is also other professional software like Ardour for music production or LibreOffice for word processing.
- Torwald 6y agoKrita is good software, but it is lacking usability. How could I sell ist against Acorn or Pixelmator? The latter is at 20$ and has superior benchmarks due to M1 support. It is available for the Mac and the iPad as well. It has the perfect UI, whereas Krita has a UI that would weird out everyone who learned graphics in the "Adobe" school. LibreOffice, you probably know that Excel is one of the biggest software platforms out there. So, I can see a chance here, when you sell script/macro development, but I wouldn't know why anyone would want LibreOffice. It's just in use because nothing else is available on Linux. Blender is probably very good, but people who need such stuff don't necessarily look too much on price. Performance is more important there. I don't know enough about music production to comment on Ardour.
- aprdm 6y agoYou seem to not know about blender or krita too but commented anyways
- Torwald 6y agoI did not comment on Blender as a software other than indicating that I do not know it well enough. I commented about the market for this category of software. What I said about Krita is true. I think you don't understand that market and it's priorities and thus gained a wrong impression of the meaning of my words.