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What the parent meant here is that competitors would have sued because Blender is free and open source. Which isn't the case for the companies you listed. More
by firefoxd 4y ago
What the parent meant here is that competitors would have sued because Blender is free and open source. Which isn't the case for the companies you listed. More like the makers of Maya, 3dmax, etc.
- DonHopkins 4y agoSpeaking of monopolies, the makers (or rather buyer) of Maya and 3dsmax is now Autodesk. They both used to be owned by different companies, and benefited from the competition. But now they're owned by the same monopolistic giant Autodesk, so they're both entrenched in their captive markets, and have stagnated in comparison to how they used to evolve when there was competition. Autodesk really hates Blender, and has always spread a lot of FUD about it. For example, Ton has told me that Autodesk's sales people falsely told their customers that Blender's GPL license means that any content you develop in Blender is automatically licensed under the GPL, so you can't use it to make copyrighted artwork, which is bullshit. There's such a long history of Autodesk spreading FUD about Blender, that when Ton Roosendaal was attacked by a ceiling tile during his talk at the 2014 Blender Conference, he joked that it was Autodesk! ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJwG-qt-sgk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJwG-qt-sgk