I rag on gimp all the time, yet I never end up buying photoshop, and it always gets the job done. We have a co-dependent love-hate relationship that will probably last all time.
I'm constantly shocked at how massive, important open source projects turn out to have so little funding. It's hard to tell which ones are Mozillas (super rich and sophisticated), and which are OpenSSL and Gimp (grossly underfunded working out of a bedroom). I imagined gimp being a 50 person team in an office.
I'm constantly shocked at how massive, important open source projects turn out to have so little funding. It's hard to tell which ones are Mozillas (super rich and sophisticated), and which are OpenSSL and Gimp (grossly underfunded working out of a bedroom). I imagined gimp being a 50 person team in an office.
It is shocking, especially because so much of all infrastructure depends on these projects, especially OpenBSD, GnuPG, OpenSSL, etc. I would absolutely pay for a 'subscription' where I could, say, spend 20 Euro per month and the money gets automatically spread over the open source programs/projects that I use. Things are heading in the right direction with Patreon, BountySource, et al. but I would like to sponsor on a amount-of-use basis.
Problem is no real reputable free software project (in order of rising significance) downloads, installs, or usage hours because most people that want liberated software also don't want tracking.
Also, different projects disclose their funding differently (if at all). Just in this context as an example Krita lists their monthly donations on their site but Gimp is just considered a part of GNOME - there is a Krita Foundation whereas Gimp donations go to the GNOME Foundation, so it would be hard given the Gnome Foundations budget statements to deduce what money is actually going to Gimp and what amount is coming in to Gimp.
Debian has popcon data, popcon is a default in Ubuntu I think too?
From the man page of popularity-contest:
The resulting statistic is available from the project home page http://popcon.debian.org/.
Normally, popularity-contest is run from a cron(8) job, /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest, which automatically submits the
results to Debian package maintainers (only once a week) according to the settings in /etc/popularity-contest.conf and
/usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf.
I'm constantly shocked at how massive, important open source projects turn out to have so little funding. It's hard to tell which ones are Mozillas (super rich and sophisticated), and which are OpenSSL and Gimp (grossly underfunded working out of a bedroom). I imagined gimp being a 50 person team in an office.
(started supporting gimp)