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>and it's light years ahead of Gimp.

Photopea makes millions. Maybe if people donated to support Gimp's development it wouldn't be that behind.

FYI GIMP's bitcoin donation wallet currently contains 362K USD. It peaked at about 1.2M USD a few months ago (yay btc volatility).

Funding isn't what's holding GIMP back. Leadership is.

Edit: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1NVMCeoBfTAJQ1qwX2Dx1...

They also accept a dozen other donation methods.

Gimp would get more donations if they put more effort into making it approachable and accessible. It's a problem with community-driven projects in many contexts: it's so worthy that criticism is stifled, even where this would lead to improvement and needed growth in the community.

I would donate to a fund seeking to end gimp entirely.

This is a stark validation of capitalism.

no - litigation from Software Patent holders has prevented progress

That’s an interesting perspective. Did GIMP get there first but just not patent the tech or it just makes it so that GIMP cannot replicate improvements?

Adobe Photoshop was originally written for the Apple Macintosh pre-OSX in the late 1980s, pre-dating GIMP massively. Large numbers of software patents soon followed. trivia- Microsoft Word was also written natively for the Mac OS -- it was many, many years before a graphical Microsoft version was available.

Lol this is an obvious lie.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9urjmg/i_made_a_free_...

It was a serious Photoshop competitor before it made a single cent.

What the link you gave is supposed to show?

>It was a serious Photoshop competitor before it made a single cent.

Can you provide an actual reference of this? The AMA you gave explicitly says Photopea is making a revenue.

> After the first 7 000 hours of work (around 5 hours a day during 3.5 years), I haven't made a single dollar (it was just my hobby during the college).

3rd paragraph.

You can see what it looked like at that time by looking at the blog posts.

Then maybe point to the blog posts rather an AMA that clearly doesn't contradict anything that I said before stating "this is an obvious lie"? Yes, they worked on the project without making revenue initially. Was it that good then?

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