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This will not end well. I hope I am wrong. Blender for me is the beacon of FOSS, but recent advancements in software are creating tons of pressure to sustain qu
by nbzso 6y ago
This will not end well. I hope I am wrong. Blender for me is the beacon of FOSS, but recent advancements in software are creating tons of pressure to sustain quality and adding new features is costly. In my view they must make proprietary version to bootstrap market expansion. I hope that I will not have to use Amazon Blender Suite as another cloud service.
- mkl 6y agoThat doesn't make sense to me. For one, Blender is GPL. For another, Amazon is hardly the first big company to sponsor Blender development: Facebook, AMD, NVidia, Unity, Epic, Intel, Microsoft, Google, etc. all contribute. They contribute because better free software for 3D modelling helps grow their own markets, for games, VR, graphics cards, gaming PCs, consoles, cloud gaming, visual effects, cloud rendering, etc. Amazon's The Man in the High Castle series used Blender for almost all its visual effects, and they sell cloud rendering services.