Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@Blender Fucking hell. Nobody wants this.

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@Blender This is terrible, if you can not understand why this is terrible you should not only ask yourselves if you are the bad guys, you should also answer yes.

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@Blender damn this sucks; please reconsider.

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@Blender@mastodon.social

Yes, the extra details are lots of gum flapping that changes nothing. They gave you a dump truck full of blood money in exchange for you changing policies to benefit them at the expense of your users.

You made a bad decision. I hope your post mortem involves identifying how you failed to read the room so badly.

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@Blender Dirty money.

I understand that the money is attractive and useful, but letting yourself be used by a bad actor trying to launder their reputation is shameful. Is shame just not a factor at all any more if there's some money on the line?

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@Blender Thanks, I hate it! 🤮

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@Blender taking dirty money now, are we?

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@Blender

I can easily find a donate button on their website.

But I can't find a "contact us" page.

I want to ask them how many Gazan babies need to be crushed under rubble, starved, have legs blown off, be blinded, or carried to a hospital by their distraught parents in multiple plastic bags hoping the doctors (who haven't yet been kidnapped and tortured) can sew them back together and bring them back to life ... in order to pay for 2 blender developers?

#blender3d #opensource #genocide

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@Blender jesus christ

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@dianaprobst @Blender To be fair: This donation does not mean that every change of code at Blender from tomorrow on will be "in favor of Anthropic and their hunger for every bit of information on the planet." It just killed Blenders integrity for now.

But a change in update-strategy these days is adviced: Check what's being changed, what's being fixed and if you truly need the update on day one. If not, wait at least for a week or so and see what the consensus of the user-base says.

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@greg Can't speak for them, but they see Blender as a project worth supporting.

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@Blender No. Locate your ethics and return the money.

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@Blender Taking money from the military contractor that’s actively destroying the careers of much of your user base by stealing their work doesn’t seem like a good way to stay popular with those users, but maybe it’s just me

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@Blender Failing to understand the problem does not do you any favors.

If you're *really* fucking confused why people don't want this shit, you could always just FUCKING ASK US.

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@Blender BOOOOO HISSSSS WHAT THE FUCK IS THISSSSS

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@Blender just another garbage company. Gfy.

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@art_codesmith
1. It's a donation
2. I expected a concerned/negative response like for other corporate memberships in the past, hence we try to make it very clear that this is just a donation. This is quite intense.

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@Blender Shameful and compromising of your reputation for short term cash.

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@Blender@mastodon.social This is going to really mess up your optics, folks.

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@Blender You'll have to reword it some more because anything that starts with accepting it at all still falls under "tone-deaf."

The best I can think of as a suggestion: we were forced by tone-deaf people to accept money from a known evil corporation, but don't worry, we promise we'll try not to become evil overnight. Fork now while you still can!