But krita.org says "Special thanks to Intel, Corporate GOLD Sponsor." What's the reconciliation between these two pages?
Krita fund has no corporate support
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#22That'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.
That's exactly the problem.
Not only that they use privative products - it's that people think about Krita as an alternative to Photoshop, as Krita is intended for digital painting rather than general raster image manipulation. Hence narrowing the target of Krita to a much smaller audience.
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#23I 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 tha…
How would a new solution respect your intentions?
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#24I 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?
It's mostly a recommendation from what I've seen so far, but it's not hard to read this as a future requirement.
CISA has been pushing it, which his my why it's on my radar: https://www.cisa.gov/sbom
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#25I genuinely wonder how much that anime waifu logo is costing the project
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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#27I'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 d…
is there an interchangeable format for this? .tiff? .ora?
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#28I 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…
I was also disappointed to see them using a KDE account for donations. I like KDE but i'm pretty sure there's tons of krita users who do not use kde, me included.
Found that there is a Krita on liberapay, which i much prefer as platform, but who knows if that's official or not, since it's not linked on this thread's link.
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#29But krita.org says "Special thanks to Intel, Corporate GOLD Sponsor." What's the reconciliation between these two pages?
https://krita.org/en/item/intel-becomes-first-krita-developm...
maybe that has ended
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#30This type of software is an excellent fit for "eventually open" licenses:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12459492
This way, corporations and business users can pay to get the latest version and features just like commercial software, while the hobbyist community still gets a relative recent and feature-full release they can use for free, has source available and is guaranteed to become fully GPL code in 3-5 years.
The traditional open source economic models (support and customization, services etc.) simply do not work for professional software with a large number of non-programmer users. A commercial license would allow these clients to pull resources together to allow software to be written, and eventually released as open source for the benefit of all - and they are the most interested in this because they don't want to get locked in.