Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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

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

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

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@Blender

Nein.
Non.
No.
Nah.
Niet.

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@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:~ #

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

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@Blender

Genocide ⟺ Blender.

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@Blender ugh how unfortunate.

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@Blender

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@Blender no, it's not welcome

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@Blender this is awful news

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@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.

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@Blender Blech.

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

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@Blender Walk it back, pls.

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@Blender Is nothing sacred anymore?

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

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@Blender no-one wants this shit. please reconsider

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@Blender doesn’t matter if they can’t steer the Blender project, they are con artists taking advantage of your organization’s legitimacy to score new marks.

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@Blender Point to your policies all you want.
The correct choice here is to not accept the money, and to tell Anthropic & their ilk to go away. Take a meaningful stance against the companies that are actively hurting and stealing from the artists that depend on tools like blender.
Welcoming them, accepting their money, is a clear signal that you care more about the money than the people they harm - including many of your own users - to get it.