cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/49567801
In these uncertain and divisive times, we appreciate Anthropic offering support to the Blender project in the form of a Patron-level membership. This enables the Blender team to keep pursuing projects independently, and to focus on building tools for artists and creators.
Francesco Siddi, CEO at Blender
15 Comments
artyom@piefed.social · 29 pts · 110d
What do we make of this? Why this? Why now?
E: relevant blog post
https://gardinerbryant.com/the-blender-x-anthropic-thing-is-an-overreaction-but-also-not-at-all/
sfxrlz@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 110d
They probably will integrate blender somehow
sonalder@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 110d
They did.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 110d
this seems like a bad thing to me given anthropic's track record and manifesto.
HelloRoot@lemy.lol · 5 pts · 110d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic#U.S._military_and_intelligence
Butterphinger@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 110d
faede@mander.xyz · -2 pts · 110d
Best alternatives to blender on linux?
Tomkoid@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 109d
why?
mholiv@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 109d
😂
j5y7@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 109d
Fork
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 109d
And who's going to develop this fork?
j5y7@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 109d
Whoever wants to. Hasn't this been the FOSS signature forever? If you don't like where it's going fork it.
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 109d
The reality is far more complicated than that. Maintaining a large project takes a lot of work in practice, and you can't just fork it and expect the fork to magically succeed. There are very few examples of such successful forks in the wild.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 109d
To add to this, when forks do succeed, it's typically because they're either making very few changes which can easily be reapplied to new versions of the original project, or because a significant number of the existing developers disagree with the project lead and are just doing what they were already doing before the fork, just without having to obey one specific person.
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 109d
Exactly, taking over a large existing codebase is a herculean task. So, most forks just end up adding superficial changes on top and keeping upstream code as is.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 109d
No, Blender the 3D software, not a blender.