Back to the topic. Companies don’t care for FOSS that much. They care for the software that accomplishes a task with acceptable result in the least amount of time. Not having an outrageously expensive license is a plus but not a must.
I think darktable is the closest to that goal. It lacks some big features like painted raster masks that will probably never come but it’s pretty much there otherwise and ready to replace any other raw processor.
Natron however in my opinion first needs a new theme and a nice one. I’ve noticed that even if you have the most powerful software ever, if its theme sucks then nobody will use it.
Unfortunately to the ordinary user a nice theme is a measure of product’s quality.
Kinda like if you were to measure the quality of a book by it’s weight.
If the software is presentable then it makes sense to showcase it on youtube videos etc, otherwise there is a lot of competition; After Effects, Fusion, Nuke, Hitfilm.
But the point is to use it. With Natron I get the feeling that everybody waits for it to become the best compositing software ever but nobody uses it for any productions now. How can we change that?