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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 licens
by 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 agoThat'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.