After quite a lot of backlash following the Blender announcement that Anthropic would become a Corporate Sponsor, the Blender Foundation released a statement.
  • SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml
    20·
    5 hours ago

    I simply cannot see any good coming from Foundations receiving funds from objectively bad Corporations. Hope I’m wrong.

    • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 minutes ago

      Sometimes, evil corporations want to use a FLOSS tool for exactly the same things as its other users do, so if they give money to the developers to use to do what the users want, everyone benefits. Other times, evil corporations want to buy some of the good reputation of a FLOSS tool and/or infect it with their toxic reputation as a marketing strategy, and only evil benefits.

    • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
      3·
      2 hours ago

      I’m more on the side of “never stop an adversary from making a mistake”.

      If they give their dirty money but have no control or power over you, take it and use it for your own agenda.

    • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 hours ago

      Yeah I’m 100% sure they are doing this A) for good PR (blender is a beloved app and funding them is awesome) b) to retain communication with the team for easier agent integration later c) to lobby for their AI.

      I can totally understand that it doesn’t look great if blender accepts the money.

      I am sure though that blender could probably need the money; open source software is criminally underfunded and those devs need money to survive at the end of the day.