Steam is big in there too. It makes sense for both companies because they make their money from content.

If an animation or game development team/studio can produce better quality content, cheaper and faster, that just means more money for the company providing access to said content.

They constantly do, it's just for less flashy stuff like drivers or kernels so no one cares.

Netflix may be the last one of the big tech corpos that still has some people that care in positions of influence as it's newer than the others and their business model isn't outright spying on their users.

Unfortunately it won't last forever. People burn out. Corporations burn them out.

They also recently reversed their cheapest tier restrictions. Now it can be ran from 2 devices, 5 profiles, 1080p and downloads.

Careful about the g word mate. Sometimes interests temporarily overlap, but "doing good" is pretty unlikely

I have a conflicted view of Netflix. They're a classic big American corporation and come with all the bullshit that entails, but at the same time they do occasionally do some cool things.

Like releasing queer content despite the backlash from the right. They released that "gay boot camp" series recently and it absolutely enraged right wing bigots. This thing with blender is another example.

I am very nervous about their Warner Brothers purchase and am hoping they prove to be responsible owners of all those IP's. It seems quite unlikely, though. There are so few American corporations who aren't shitty.

Someone do any CAD. I’m pretty surprised at how shitty the free cad options are. I just use it for 3d printing. Fusion360 (free) is the only decent product out there.

If all the other top level donators haven't done that by now I don't think there's much to worry about. And if they had plans to, I think they would have to face off against the other top level donators. So it wouldn't be that easy either.

I don't see how that would be possible ? Blender is a foundation, not a company (although there's also a company, but.... that's another story) and the code is licensed with GPLv2... you'd have to have ALL contributors from the very beginning (=thousands of people, including the ones who passed away) to agree unanimously to a license change.
Blender is safe.

Does this give them any actual control over Blender development or is it just one of many groups saying "We like what you're doing, keep at it"?

Not saying there isn't the possibility of pressure because "If you don't do what we want, we'll pull our funding"... but again, if they're just one of many patrons at that level (amongst many at a smaller level) so that's not necessarily going to make that big a difference.

Is Netflix evil these days?