One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.

  • @kadu@lemmy.world
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    710 months ago

    Are there other open source projects near feature parity with GIMP, though?

    There are certainly other commercial software, like Affinity, and certainly some shady Photoshop clones like Photopea (and it does work really well) but nothing like GIMP, as far as I’m aware.

      • sebinspace
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        210 months ago

        Stuart Semple’s company has something cooking. I have Affinity pirated, and I’m going to see which one I prefer before spending the money on either.

      • Captain Aggravated
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        110 months ago

        It’s been my understanding that the general populace has been asking the developers of GIMP for years now to overhaul the UI and make it much friendlier to use, and the answer came back, “No, stop asking.”

        • @dannoffs
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          110 months ago

          The biggest problem with a GIMP UI overhaul is that the core team is only 2 people.

          • Captain Aggravated
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            110 months ago

            That’s fairly common with open source projects. How do those two people treat contributors? How do they react to pull requests?