I simply cannot see any good coming from Foundations receiving funds from objectively bad Corporations. Hope I’m wrong.
Wait, the implication here is that there are good corporations?
Touché. You win.
there’s nothing more important than being right on the internet. lol
Sometimes, evil corporations want to use a FLOSS tool for exactly the same things as its other users do, so if they give money to the developers to use to do what the users want, everyone benefits. Other times, evil corporations want to buy some of the good reputation of a FLOSS tool and/or infect it with their toxic reputation as a marketing strategy, and only evil benefits.
Could be worse, and it’s free money.
The cynic (ML?) in me says there’s no free lunch under capitalism.
The cynic (historical materialist) in me says this happens constantly under capitalism.
If they have a significant amount of money to donate to a foundation the odds are they’re evil anyway.
Foundations can just not get enough money and collapse, if you want.
I am alterIng the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.
I’m totally okay with them receiving money from bad companies. It’s like vandals ordered to pick up highway trash - yo momma - as punishment.
Receiving Merge Requests from sloppers, though? That’s not cool.
Kinda weird there’s some insistence about open source only getting funding from the purest of sources.
“Like all Blender donations, it will be spent on core activities for the Blender project, supporting human-driven development, art, and creativity”.
And what does Anthropic get in return?
Likely nothing in this case since they aren’t going to be a full sponsor anymore. I believe real full sponsors can have some impact on the direction of feature development but that isn’t bad because it’s open source and adding features large companies want and will pay to have developed in open source tools isn’t bad.
“No generative AI functionality is currently available or planned to be integrated in Blender”
