Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund!

[jens@social.finkhaeuser.de]

@thibaultmol @UkeleleEric @eden @Blender So, legally speaking (EU tax laws vary, but seem to converge on this), *donations* cannot be based on reciprocity. A public statement thanking the donor is about as far as it can go, or the recipient is in hot water tax wise.

*Sponsorship* is not tax exempt, and can therefore include all the reciprocity the two parties can think of.

So whereas e.g. FOSDEM treats things one way, it does not follow that any other sponsorship has to follow the same rules.

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@Blender

Big mistake. Huge loss of respect. Blind dumb stupid move.

[wakame@tech.lgbt]

@annika @Blender

Since Claude is used in Maven... my money is on Palantir.

[dbg3d@masto.es]

@Blender

Are you taking the piss? 🤬

Seems this is not your first date with the devil 🤮

https://mastodon.social/@mrmasterkeyboard/116483286991823696

[keeya@icy.arcticfluff.eu]

@Blender Uh so, you are taking money from a company that enables war crimes, destroys our planet, destroys our society and steals from the very ppl that made blender successful, the art community?

No matter how it's "worded", this should be declined and Antropic be told to… to put it politely to just go away. So if Palantir comes waving with money, you'd accept that as well?

[fsiddi@mstdn.social]

All right, Francesco here - CEO at Blender. I'm going to spend some time to try and respond. If you have direct questions or comments, reply here!

[nerdwolf@chaos.social]

@Blender
you cant weaselword out of this. Its not the wording thats disgusting, its the fact of taking money from an entity thats harmfull to any creative person, or democratic or antifasistic.

[greg@icosahedron.website]

@fsiddi what's in it for Anthropic?

[cryptica@wireframe.icosahedron.network]

@Blender

~~Give the money back.

Apologize to your users.~~

Never mind, they're already vibe-coding blender now

https://mastodon.social/@mrmasterkeyboard/116483286991823696

I hope the money was worth it, you fuckin ghouls.

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@Blender OOOPH

Really, guys?

Foot, mouth much?

Anthropic? Satan was NOT available, is that it?

[stonykark@mstdn.ca]

@domo @Blender blender, the 3D software maker, kills children.

[clouderst@abc.clouderst.xyz]

@4censord @Blender well as long as blender doesn't become a microsoft-like app i guess it's only fair anthropic started giving back to all the creators that they stole data from for claude

[julianh@mas.to]

@Blender Did @tonroosendaal approve this shit? What the fuck guys, seriously.

[fsiddi@mstdn.social]

@keeya this applies to most large corporate dev fund members. We take donations to pursue Blender's mission. Individual donations is what helps to keep the balance.

[kookie@chaosfem.tw]

@Blender Just please don't add AI slop into Blender

[jonizulo@beige.party]

@Blender This is such a bad idea. could none of you see that accepting something like this would cause immense backlash from people who are very negatively affected by these huge AI companies?? I think probably everyone here demands that you reconsider your decision unless you wanna destroy your reputation.

[evanby@mstdn.social]

@Blender Well that’s nice of them to “offer support”. Asked yourselves what *their* motivation might be?

[noel@ice.00ffff.eu]

@Blender Oof, that one hurts...

[seyfr@mastodon.social]

@raritastic @Blender maybe a future fork ?

[tael@yiff.life]

@Blender Raytheon next?