Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program

Re:Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting pro... by woolion on Monday May 01, 2023 @02:32PM (#35777112)

Here is an old (2016) breakdown of their income sources: https://krita.org/en/item/funding-kritas-development/

I follow their updates semi-regularly so I'm not sure if they made a more recent one that was as detailed. I found a tad depressing to see how much Steam purchases are making compared to donations.

They also had an interesting post about the fact that on the Windows store they cannot mention that you can download it for free as it is against Microsoft TOS: https://krita.org/en/item/krita-in-the-windows-store-an-upda...

They also mention that it's a compromise, it's adding a new income stream but participating in the economy of non-free software.

It's hard to make money with free software, even if your product is industry-level in some aspects.

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Re:Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting pro... by gibolt on Monday May 01, 2023 @02:53PM (#35777382)

If Microsoft asked you to make a donation for a product, you'd probably also scoff at the idea.

It is a term that carries lots of connotations, and people are far less likely to do than simply buy a product.

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Re:Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting pro... by hallarempt on Monday May 01, 2023 @03:15PM (#35777702)

We didn't do an update on that, because that post got us into big trouble with inland revenue (Dutch) in 2017...

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Re:Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting pro... by woolion on Monday May 01, 2023 @04:12PM (#35778483)

Right, I remember the issue... which I think got you to do the proper setup of the Krita foundation to avoid any similar issue (which may have been quite some work and accountant fees).

Thank you for your work, by the way. Krita is one of the things that make me the happiest, with Linux itself. It's such a well-designed software, and it's such a pleasure to paint with it.

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Re:Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting pro... by TulliusCicero on Monday May 01, 2023 @05:50PM (#35779689)

> I found a tad depressing to see how much Steam purchases are making compared to donations.

Why's this depressing? They 'charge' a reasonable price on Steam for those who want to either support the project or get automatic updates or both, and the developers for this open source project get funded without having to actually paywall the product. Seems pretty good all around to me!

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