alt Hacker NewsAha - so that decision was not a consensus or community made one? I really don't know right now; no clue about the internals at blender. But that would be interesting ... I can see the headlines "Blender community sold to Anthropic. Forks starting in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ..."
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conorbergin • today at 4:43 PM
I doubt a fork would ever happen, Blender, being computer graphics software, has a huge knowledge gap between it's developers and it's users.
tibbydudeza • today at 4:23 PM
The militant open-source crowd never disappoints - rather burn down than build up.
Sponsorship decisions are not community polls, never have been.
And the worries about "blender just being sold to xyz..." have been around forever. Always wrong. People with AMD cards were screaming when Nvidia became sponsor, and other way round.
It is more about the signal sent, in this case.
For everyone who is interested, here is the mastodon thread: https://mastodon.social/@Blender/116482997785333001 (it is just like to be expected though)