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Krita Foundation completed a fundraising campaign successfully raising money for making their Krita digital painting app faster than the well-known Photoshop software from Adobe.
[...] On May 4, we reported that the Krita developers decided to do another Kickstarter campaign, after last year's successful one, this time to raise €20,000 ($22,000) for making the next version of the application faster.
[...] Krita's fundraising campaign was successfully completed, raising a little over €30,000 ($34,000), which means that the developers will concentrate all of their efforts on making the open-source digital painting app much faster than Photoshop.
[...] The current version of Krita is 2.9.5 [...] Most probably, the new, improved code will be implemented in Krita 3.0, which should be out later this year.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by epl on Monday June 15 2015, @08:45AM
Ok, they made a typo and they SHOULD have found it before posting, but that doesn't automatically make this a scam. Krita has been around, in one for or another, for quite a long time. First as part of KDE's KOffice and later it was split off as its own entity entirely, with its own Foundation to manage it. First actual release I can trace back was in June of 2005, so they're not exactly fly-by-night. They're not hiding this history by the way, they have it on their homepage [krita.org], and if you don't trust them, hit up the mail archives; they're all public as far as I'm aware.
Krita started as "QT needs a better GIMP", but it has become much more than that over time. I do hope this injection of funds helps them smooth and improve, but that I refuse to speculate about. Just wanted to clear up any image some might have that this is a new piece of software, something that has just started or just a bunch of guys doing a quick money grab (they might, but their history seems to suggest a low chance of this).