Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

[Gast]

@Blender Condolences.

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@Blender
Fuck the fash, fuck this shit. Thanks for your attention

[Gast]

@Blender AI;DR

Glad to know you’re cool with pedophilia, IP theft, genocide and fascism.

We are not.

Fuck you you fucking sad fucks.

[Gast]

@Blender omg. No.

[Gast]

@Blender Protip for everyone on *nix. Most package managers have a "mask" option which can prevent further updates from happening automatically. I see that Flatpak has one as well.

Best to go ahead and mask now while waiting for the forks to stabilize.

For Windows I believe PortableApps has a portable version of Blender if I remember correctly. (It has been a while.)

[Gast]

@Blender what the fuck? Why would you do this? Do you actively hate your user base and decided you wanted to partner with someone that will cost you a lot of support and good will?

Like, did no one think this would look horrible? Are you all that out of touch?

[Gast]

@Blender
Read
The
Room
Guys

[Gast]

@Blender Well. was nice knowing ya.

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@Blender WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU IDIOTS!?!?

[Gast]

@Blender not a good idea

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@Blender Slop money! I had better expectations of Blender.

[Gast]

The frustrating thing is you know people had meetings about this and they were all yeah let's do this. Ugh! @jwcph @Blender

[Gast]

@Blender The new version eliminates a "Welcome." I think we were all hoping you would eliminate the sponsor.

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@Blender

Blood money, made by proudly supporting maiming and killing.

Removed Blender from our list of recommended FLOSS.

[Gast]

@Blender eeewwwww 🤮

[Gast]

@Blender

When money talks, bullshit walks.
Lemme bullshit'n elsewhere now.

[Gast]

@Blender you fucked up

[angiebaby@mas.to]

@Blender

Cool. Another great open source project chasing after the elusive snake oil grift. Vibe code your own demise.

[Gast]

@Blender I genuinely don't think that "yeah we don't like what they want to do with Blender either but it's important for software freedom that we take their sponsorship and promote their brand" is a good argument.
Yes, free software means that anyone can do what they like with it, but I don't think that it has to mean that you have to actively enable uses that are "not aligned with your mission". Not even if you get money for it, and not even if other uses benefit from it too.

[Gast]

@Blender
Booooooooooooooooooooo!!!