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Hopefully, projects like Krita[1] and GIMP[2] would get more funding like Blender as well. [1] https://krita.org/en/support-us/sponsors/ https://krita.org/en/s

by xvilka 5y ago

Hopefully, projects like Krita[1] and GIMP[2] would get more funding like Blender as well. [1] https://krita.org/en/support-us/sponsors/ https://krita.org/en/support-us/sponsors/ [2] https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/07/27/support-gimp-developers-sustainable-development/ https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/07/27/support-gimp-developers...

tdrdt 5y ago
While I agree I think the reason a lot of big companies are funding Blender is because they use it internally as tool. I can imagine Photoshop is used internally at Apple and they will just pay a license for this. So there is no reason they would start funding Krita or Gimp.
- literallyaduck 5y ago
  Imagine if companies who heavily used Photoshop funded GIMP at half the license rate, and companies who used Illustrator funded Inkscape at the same half license rate. Donating to LibreOffice at half the rate you pay to office 365. The free alternatives would surpass the paid versions.
  - dagmx 5y ago
    That's a lot of ifs. You'd also need to have people in influential positions in the project. Let's not sugar coat that GIMP and Blender both went to great lengths to eschew industry workflow and UI/UX norms. they both only started shifting to more familiar paradigms when grassroots movements within their user communities pushed hard for it. Development time and money are only half the battle. Project leadership and politics are an unquantifiable effort. Blender for example has been capable of great things for a long time. Its surge in popularity was largely down to giving up the ideologies of its unique workflow.
hallarempt 5y ago
If Apple gave me 120k a year and made a merge request for a Metal backend for Krita, I wouldn't say no to either, being Krita's maintainer.
- philovivero 5y ago
  ^ Can someone get this over to Apple stat? This would be amazing.
ognarb 5y ago
Krita also has a nice funding website: https://fund.krita.org/ https://fund.krita.org/ (forked from the blender one)

by xvilka 5y ago

tdrdt 5y ago

While I agree I think the reason a lot of big companies are funding Blender is because they use it internally as tool. I can imagine Photoshop is used internally at Apple and they will just pay a license for this. So there is no reason they would start funding Krita or Gimp.

literallyaduck 5y ago
Imagine if companies who heavily used Photoshop funded GIMP at half the license rate, and companies who used Illustrator funded Inkscape at the same half license rate. Donating to LibreOffice at half the rate you pay to office 365. The free alternatives would surpass the paid versions.
- dagmx 5y ago
  That's a lot of ifs. You'd also need to have people in influential positions in the project. Let's not sugar coat that GIMP and Blender both went to great lengths to eschew industry workflow and UI/UX norms. they both only started shifting to more familiar paradigms when grassroots movements within their user communities pushed hard for it. Development time and money are only half the battle. Project leadership and politics are an unquantifiable effort. Blender for example has been capable of great things for a long time. Its surge in popularity was largely down to giving up the ideologies of its unique workflow.

hallarempt 5y ago

If Apple gave me 120k a year and made a merge request for a Metal backend for Krita, I wouldn't say no to either, being Krita's maintainer.

philovivero 5y ago
^ Can someone get this over to Apple stat? This would be amazing.

ognarb 5y ago

Krita also has a nice funding website: https://fund.krita.org/ https://fund.krita.org/ (forked from the blender one)