>>3772745>The only way to really beat Adobe is for every of those different open source communities to unite and follow a common goal and create an ecosystem like the creative cloud from Adobe, but it's not happening anytime soon because everyone wants to do their own thingThe reason why the Open Source community will never produce a real substitute for Adobe's software is because they're program developers, not photographers or film-makers or digital painters and artists. At those roles they're amateurs at best, and essentially don't know what they're doing.
The reason why Adobe did it, and why they were so successful, is because they went to the professionals and asked "What do you need? What do you want?", and the professionals explained to them what they're trying to do and how it's supposed to work. Actual industry standard stuff, replicating real workflows, actual well-researched theory, actual color matching, filtering… etc. It had to be right before the professionals would pay you any money for it because they're not fucking around. You can't just phone it in and call it done, and ignore user complaints for the next 20 years.
The developers behind GIMP and the like don't do that, because they're not trying to sell the thing to actual professionals. They're happy if it looks the part and sort-of does the same thing - they don't care whether they're actually implementing the "warming filter 82" correctly - it's just a button that makes the picture slightly more brown and who cares how or why.
