People: companies should support open source!
Also people: companies supporting open source is bad, actually!
Comment on Netflix Animation Studios are now funding Blender development
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Another example of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
GammaGames@beehaw.org 7 months ago
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
How?
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Embrace: Netflix funds Blender devs
Extend: Netflix continues funding/hiring Blender devs.
Extinguish: Netflix buys the governing body of Blender, starts charging for the service and laughs all the way to the bank.
I give it ten years.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You realise Blender is open source, right? If they pull shenanigans the community can simply fork the project.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 7 months ago
@Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone has reason to be alarmed:
Capitalism is a blight to libre software.
CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 7 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.
Auster@thebrainbin.org 7 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.