[herbst]

I use Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, ... Except blender the others don't have any funding near those 250k and yet they compete very well to Adobe (I know many would deny that, but for me they do)

Money alone doesn't make good software.

[riffraff]

but the guy who started this kickstarter obviously does not feel that Gimp, Inkscape, Paint.net... are good enough, or he would not plan to build new tools.

So a zillion people working on gimp could not do it, while a handful with 250k in funding can?

This is performance art, not a project.