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

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@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.)

[aaron_devries@mastodon.social]

@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?

[witewulf@cyberplace.social]

@Blender
Read
The
Room
Guys

[touk@smores.town]

@Blender Well. was nice knowing ya.

[lambdacalculus@masto.hackers.town]

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

[d_prieto@peoplemaking.games]

@Blender not a good idea

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

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

[weirdwriter@caneandable.social]

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

[damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org]

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

[tuxwise@infosec.exchange]

@Blender

Blood money, made by proudly supporting maiming and killing.

Removed Blender from our list of recommended FLOSS.

[pierrodu21@mstdn.social]

@Blender eeewwwww 🤮

[bitchboss@marcella.masto.host]

@Blender

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

[mxchara@seattle.pink]

@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.

[felurx@troet.cafe]

@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.

[sb@metroholografix.ca]

@Blender
Booooooooooooooooooooo!!!

[rapsneezy2@mastodon.social]

@Blender

It's not about influence on code.

How many Palestinian or Iranian babies needed to have their brains sprayed across concrete rubble in order for Anthropic to pay for 2 blender developers?

#blender #b3d #blender3d #genocide #tech #ooensource #usempire #gaza #iran

[mxchara@seattle.pink]

@Blender you know, Blender...dirty money is dirty. no amount of rewording is going to fix that. there's no lawyerly way you're wriggling out of this mistake.

You've aligned yourself with destroyers.

[shadedlady@mstdn.social]

@Blender not helping

[boydstephensmithjr@hachyderm.io]

@danana_dread @Blender

> Taking the US Military Industrial Complex's blood money is reason enough to switch tools.

Taking resources away from bad organizations is a good thing. If the only thing the US MIC gets from Blender is "legitimacy", I'm fine with that. We can reassess if/when the US MIC's legitimacy is less universal.

> Giving corporate AI slop-peddlers influence over what features the devs are to prioritize

Yeah, that's not good. The slop peddlers are just going to make things worse while illegally extracting all they can from the commons.