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

[nerdwolf@chaos.social]

@Blender
Congratulations. You just ruined your reputation with that step. I will never touch your software again. Whats next , do you sell MAGA hats?

[epickiwi@nerdculture.de]

@Blender freedom is more precious than growth or fast shipping of releases. Community is watching you Blender Foundation.

[eloirovira@mastodon.social]

@Blender another app I won't be recommending anymore...

[rzeta0@mathstodon.xyz]

@Blender

Nein.
Non.
No.
Nah.
Niet.

[harbeider@mastodon.social]

@Blender
harrobot:~ # zypper rm blender

The following 2 packages are going to be REMOVED:
blender blender-lang
[...]

Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y):
(1/2) Removing: blender-lang-2.82a-bp156.3.12.noarch ..........[done]
(2/2) Removing: blender-2.82a-bp156.3.12.x86_64 ..........[done]

harrobot:~ #

[di4na@hachyderm.io]

@Blender oh ffs, when you were finally winning in this domain, you just destroy your reputation...

[rapsneezy2@mastodon.social]

@Blender

Genocide ⟺ Blender.

[noomsh@mastodon.social]

@Blender ugh how unfortunate.

[bangskij@climatejustice.social]

@Blender

[lexbailey@tech.lgbt]

@Blender this is awful news

[rataunderground@neopaquita.es]

@Blender Do you really need to tarnish Blender’s (until now, spotless) reputation with this move? Not a single one of your users is going to be happy with this decision.

[zenheathen@beige.party]

@Blender Blech.

[missaemilia@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Blender What the fuck are you thinking? What next, the nazis?

[benjoe@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Blender Walk it back, pls.

[ratking@mstdn.io]

@Blender Is nothing sacred anymore?

[perry@mk.absturztau.be]

@Blender@mastodon.social for fucks sake, can you please not?

[lumi@snug.moe]

@Blender no-one wants this shit. please reconsider

[desttinghim@gamedev.lgbt]

@Blender even if this does not give anthropic any control over blender, the messaging is tone deaf, especially on the fediverse. If you're going to accept money from a company as toxic as Anthropic, the announcement needs to at the very least critique them, not blandly heap praise for the donation. Community trust is hard to win and easy to lose, so I would think hard about the message this post is sending to your community.

[schelling@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Blender Awful awful awful... Real disappointing and worrying.

[msbellows@c.im]

@Blender NOOOOOOOO! What the hell are you thinking? You're allowing Anthropic to whitewash its murder of everything you say you value. Don't do this.