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Netflix Animation Studios are now funding Blender development (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [B] to c/gaming@lemmy.zip
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[–] 18 points 9 months ago

This is great news for Blender. More companies should support the open source projects they use.

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    [–] 0 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    Another example of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    How?

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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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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

    Capitalism is a blight to libre software.

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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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    [–] 15 points 9 months ago

    the question is will they try to attach strings to it

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    [–] 36 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I'm mixed on this. While I love more money for Blender, I don't like it when big companies invest a lot of money into open-source projects. They tend to treat the investment the same way stockholders treat corporations. At the same time Blender has become such a huge part of VFX in general that it'd be stupid not to invest in Blender. I've been using Blender for 10+ years and these days it's just as robust, in some cases moreso, as most commercially available software.

    My point is this could be a very good thing for Blender or a bad thing for the average user. We'll just have to wait and see and hope for the best.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    If blender has a good management, they will take the most from it, without becoming reliant, like mozilla became reliant on google.

    I think it's a great thing that blender is receiving this funding. Let's just not fall into the trap of improving the public image of netflix

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    That's the lovely thing about open source: if this ruins blender, the community at large can pivot and fork blender to allow it to thrive in the way the community wants it. In small projects this type of pivot can ruin the momentum of a project, but in large-scale projects they are a lot safer.

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    • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    So like 3 few full time developers. Neat.

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