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

[blender@mastodon.social]

Make sure to check out the full message on https://www.blender.org/press/anthropic-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/ and the funding policy at https://fund.blender.org/funding-policy/ to get the complete picture.

[iaaa@spacey.space]

@Blender

They cannot possibly be paying you enough to make this worthwhile.

[kirakira@furry.engineer]

@Blender yeah, i really hope this is just taking the free vc money and running

[je@ohai.social]

@Blender ok i will write objs in vi then

[erisceleste@tech.lgbt]

@Blender uninstalling

[peetz0r@hsnl.social]

@Blender Mixed feelings here.

On one side: more money for Blender is good.

On the other side: Anthropic is very much not friend-shaped.

[luna@lunar.place]

@Blender@mastodon.social Regardless of how little influence anthropic will have, just taking their money is NOT a good move for a creative software

[makram@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Blender this picture?

[kahianyaaa@eldritch.cafe]

@Blender Please don't add a SINGLE ai-slop feature in the product. No one wants AI.

[retrakker@mastodon.social]

@Blender please don't do that. That is just a cold death grip of this grifter company ...

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@Blender

[virtualbri@mastodon.online]

@Blender When your announcement has to come with a disclaimer, it certainly raises eyebrows. I don't know that taking money from a massive intellectual property theft ring is a good look.

[nick_stevens_graphics@mastodon.art]

@Blender

For shame.

This is not even close to acceoptable.

[amosmulder@mastodon.social]

@Blender Ouch! Out of touch much?

[retrakker@mastodon.social]

@Blender @tonroosendaal ... why?

[mykolak@fosstodon.org]

@barrionomia @thibaultmol @UkeleleEric @eden @Blender
If management not very bright to became fully dependant on one source, then yes, but except Mozilla I can't see other examples like this, so not very likely.

[schrottkatze@social.treehouse.systems]

@Blender oh fuck no

[c1710@social.c1710.de]

@Blender Eww

[i_give_u_worms@beige.party]

@Blender "maybe we can eat just a little poison this time."

[riidom@metalhead.club]

@barrionomia @thibaultmol @UkeleleEric @eden @Blender

I just want to adress points 1 & 2 here:

They have just too many sponsors to be dependant on a single one. Even if it's from the highest tier, as in this case. The money basically pays 2 full-time salaries.