Comment on Netflix Animation Studios are now funding Blender development

Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  People: companies should support open source!

  Also people: companies supporting open source is bad, actually!

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• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How?

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  • Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Embrace: Netflix funds Blender devs

    Extend: Netflix continues funding/hiring Blender devs.

    Extinguish: Netflix buys the governing body of Blender, starts charging for the service and laughs all the way to the bank.

    I give it ten years.

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    • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You realise Blender is open source, right? If they pull shenanigans the community can simply fork the project.

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      • AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        @Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone has reason to be alarmed:

        • RedHat Linux pulled libre development.
        • AOSP requires GDPR violations
        • Oracle.
        • Google

        Capitalism is a blight to libre software.

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    • CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      too many companies already supporting blender for too long for it to be the case. Giants such as AMD, Intel and Nvidia are omongst them for quite a long time. No indication there’d be any “extinguishment” in the foreseeable future.

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    • Auster@thebrainbin.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Even if they don't absorb Blender, who pays chooses the restaurant, adapting a local saying. The more a company or coordinated group injects moneys into a project, the more of a saying they have in the developments of that project.

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