In these uncertain and divisive times, we appreciate Anthropic offering support to the Blender project in the form of a Patron-level membership. This enables the Blender team to keep pursuing projects independently, and to focus on building tools for artists and creators.
Francesco Siddi, CEO at Blender
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And this is why we can’t have nice things.
Well yeah, capitalists playbook.
Give money to thing, people who do thing are grateful but wary. People who do thing are able to do more thing with the money and become reliant on the money, then corporation starts putting the lean on them to push agenda while threatening to pull funding that the thing needs now.
They support well established projects and foundations that broke the corporate glass to push their agenda on those projects but not single user projects that they use in their closed source software.