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[–] 0 points 9 months ago* (7 children)

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.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Good luck getting all Blender contributors to agree to a license change, very different circumstances to Open Source corporate software employing or restricting contributors to a CLA.

    Hence why modern AOSP/RedHat/Ubuntu and the likes are not commonly considered libre, although they are GPL licensed open source software.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months 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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  • [–] 2 points 9 months 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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