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Krita fund has no corporate support

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Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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But they can already support like one and a half full time developers. Krita future looks bright.

The problem is that commercial company might have 20 full-time developers and resources to use third-party services, and they compete with Krita. Can Krita stay competitive enough to attract more funders and users? If they can't, userbase (mostly because of the AI) will shift more towards commercial products, and over long period, Krita will die. I hope that won't happen.

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I want someone to build this: SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) are slowly becoming ubiquitus around the world due to regulation. I want to be able to aggregate all SBOMs within my company, have a small tool that scans my machine and creates a SBOM for all Open Source tools I use (e.g. Firefox, VLC etc.), uploads that to my corporate registry. This data is then submitted to a donation aggregator which analyzes those…

Say more about this SBOM regulation. Do you have an EN standard or something you can point me to?

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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post #2

That's just sad. Open Source support really needs to be normalized in corporate environment. Now it's more of an exception than the rule.

I agree, but in this particular case i have to ask... how many companies are actually USING Krita? My impression is that the vast majority of places that need software like that use Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator, or Affinity Photo/Designer.

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post #3

But they can already support like one and a half full time developers. Krita future looks bright.

Are they really paying a full time developer only 3000 €/month?

it should be noted that european developer salaries are SIGNIFICANTLY lower than US ones.

US dev salaries have been completely skewed by stupid levels of VC money. European ones not so much.

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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I like Krita's development ethos, but I really can't use the product at all. If I want software that doesn't respect my intentions, but provides the kitchen sink for functionality, I can find that better represented and supported in Adobe, Paint.Net, Paint Tool Sai; and those are just the raster comparisons. I honestly can't wait until design tools figure out what year it is and start developing blue-sky versions that work with multiple devices and accounts, simultaneously, to provide honed experiences for specific project work. I can't say I blame the lack of corporate sponsors, because I wouldn't - as an organization - find utility in the product.

That said, it's still a shame! Seems like there would be someone out there with similar interests. I hope this post, or whatever else, helps evangelize this as a problem!

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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I want someone to build this: SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) are slowly becoming ubiquitus around the world due to regulation. I want to be able to aggregate all SBOMs within my company, have a small tool that scans my machine and creates a SBOM for all Open Source tools I use (e.g. Firefox, VLC etc.), uploads that to my corporate registry. This data is then submitted to a donation aggregator which analyzes those…

Love that idea!

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I'm migrating from Krita to Photoshop lately.

Don't get me wrong, I love Krita. I used it for years and I wrote ~30+ bug reports. It's a positive thing -- I won't bother reporting bugs to Adobe cause I know they don't care, unlike Krita devs.

However every time I need to collaborate with someone else, they use Photoshop. They use .psd like it's an interchangeable format[1]. Out of 10+ artists I've only seen one who doesn't use PS, and it's not Krita.

[1]: I know Krita can read and write .psd.

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I want someone to build this: SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) are slowly becoming ubiquitus around the world due to regulation. I want to be able to aggregate all SBOMs within my company, have a small tool that scans my machine and creates a SBOM for all Open Source tools I use (e.g. Firefox, VLC etc.), uploads that to my corporate registry. This data is then submitted to a donation aggregator which analyzes those…

First: I also need that. It is a pain right now. Second: it would be a good way to rationalize to your managers on how shaky grounds they stand.

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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post #2

That's just sad. Open Source support really needs to be normalized in corporate environment. Now it's more of an exception than the rule.

When corporate support rolls in, project tend to turn sour. Demand from the corporate entities proceed to dominate rather than voices from individual donations. Its a double edged sword.

Krita is accepting corporate donations.
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