- cross-posted to:
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- blender@sopuli.xyz
- cross-posted to:
- opensource@programming.dev
- blender@sopuli.xyz
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This is great news for Blender. More companies should support the open source projects they use.
Another example of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
How?
Embrace: Netflix funds Blender devs
Extend: Netflix continues funding/hiring Blender devs.
Extinguish: Netflix buys the governing body of Blender, brings them in and starts charging for the service while laughing all the way to the bank.
I give it ten years max.
You realise Blender is open source, right? If they pull shenanigans the community can simply fork the project.
@Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone has reason to be alarmed:
Capitalism is a blight to libre software.
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.
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.
People: companies should support open source!
Also people: companies supporting open source is bad, actually!
