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Yes they are giving updates https://krita.org/en/item/funding-kritas-development/ https://krita.org/en/item/funding-krita-2017/
First link is a 404 and second link is from 2017 and doesn't have the information I want which is how much money they are making from storefronts.
Looks like $6000 from steam, or 10%, in ~2016
We work like this and it's OK, not perfect but OK For folks in our industry that are not using our software (they are using of the closed-source competitors) we are able to show alternatives and still have conversations with operations folks about methods, ideas and other non-technical methods for businesss-process-automation. We've also got a segment of customers, they are paying us maintainers to basically do the i…
Basically unless you're already making a living by the accumulation of a lot of that kind of $800 transaction, the hassle involved in accepting just one of them as a one-off makes it not worthwhile (tax questions, potential conflict of interest with existing employer, dealing with people as paying clients rather than as people one can simply say 'no' to, etc...) And there's a massive chasm between "maybe once in six months somebody offers you $800" and "enough money coming in to quit the day job".
I would love a bounty system built in to GitHub. If I find an issue in an open source project, I should be able to offer up to whatever amount of money for the maintainer to fix it. Assuming said maintainer accepts it, they'd be obligated to at least try and fix the issue. Issue. If the issues insurmountable, then maybe give me half my money back. When someone opens an issue on your open source project, there's no wa…
We work like this and it's OK, not perfect but OK For folks in our industry that are not using our software (they are using of the closed-source competitors) we are able to show alternatives and still have conversations with operations folks about methods, ideas and other non-technical methods for businesss-process-automation. We've also got a segment of customers, they are paying us maintainers to basically do the i…
You could file a bug/feature request and then pay a dev internally to work on implementing it. It would amount to much the same thing.
One problem with that is that I don't believe you can pay me for talk to your team without approval from my current employer.
It then becomes a problem not of finding the right person from the project to speak, but finding any person in the project who is currently a contractor able to bill you.
Or am I overthinking it?
I would love a bounty system built in to GitHub. If I find an issue in an open source project, I should be able to offer up to whatever amount of money for the maintainer to fix it. Assuming said maintainer accepts it, they'd be obligated to at least try and fix the issue. Issue. If the issues insurmountable, then maybe give me half my money back. When someone opens an issue on your open source project, there's no wa…
The thing that makes me a bit nervous about bounties is that they can add some weird incentives: maintainers may feel that NOT promptly fixing a bug that affects big companies is a strategic way to get a bounty to fix it!
We work like this and it's OK, not perfect but OK For folks in our industry that are not using our software (they are using of the closed-source competitors) we are able to show alternatives and still have conversations with operations folks about methods, ideas and other non-technical methods for businesss-process-automation. We've also got a segment of customers, they are paying us maintainers to basically do the i…
I've had multiple experience trying to pay FOSS developers where they wouldn't even accept a donation.
The rationale seems to be that they don't want the increased responsibility that comes with offering a paid service.
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First link is a 404 and second link is from 2017 and doesn't have the information I want which is how much money they are making from storefronts.
First link has a typo (an errant á), should be: https://krita.org/en/item/funding-kritas-development/ .. however it's even older (from 2016) Their windows store buy page[0] (also from 2017) suggests they'd prefer you donate than buy.. so it's probably not a viable model. [0]: https://krita.org/en/item/krita-available-from-the-windows-s...
With this approach, suddenly your fun project turns into a job. Which is the exact thing most open source developers avoid.