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When corporate support rolls in, project tend to turn sour. Demand from the corporate entities proceed to dominate rather than voices from individual donations
by doublerabbit 3y ago
When corporate support rolls in, project tend to turn sour.
Demand from the corporate entities proceed to dominate rather than voices from individual donations. Its a double edged sword.
- raincole 3y agoAnd the examples are? Cause the counter examples are phenomenal like Blender and Linux.
- scrpl 3y agoThat's because many corporate "donations" are not so much a donation as a way of soft-buying a feature. It's hard for businesses hyperfocused on short-term gains to understand a long-term value of, for example, supporting an alternative for an industry-dominating Adobe toolkit. But the value is there.
- marcinzm 3y agoLong-term value that's hard to define doesn't translate well to stock price especially when any investment also helps competitors who aren't investing anything into the project.
- AraceliHarker 3y agoKrita is accepting corporate donations.
- numpad0 3y agoKhara threw a bag of pachinko money in Blender's face to make the last Evangelion film work, and it was fine. I guess that was a rare occurrence that they desperately and so purely needed a tool they can hand to broke freelancers without frantically searching for keygens, but it can totally happen when incentives are right.