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A large state corporation in Brazil is currently trialing 800 Linux PCs. If successful, it will deploy and replace 22k Windows installs, comparable to the migration happening in Germany. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I believe Lula and his government appreciates anything that reduces the influence of the US.

The German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I definetly think they should dump twitter. especially democratic institutions

What non-FOSS software are you using that you wish you could replace? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I haven't found a FOSS Ableton/Bitwig replacement either, but the FOSS audio world has many wonderful synths a effects.

The Blender market is kinda revolutionary and noone really talks about it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

the post I quoted from is pretty much 10 years old - except for the license blender changed a lot since then. Both Corona and V-ray have some kind of 'bridge' implementation, but they are not nearly as well integrated into blender as cycles is, and therefore their userbase is quite small.

The Blender market is kinda revolutionary and noone really talks about it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

oh I use blender so much I have to put effort into associating the word with a literal blender

The Blender market is kinda revolutionary and noone really talks about it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

they give you stuff for free. Send them money if you want them to have more resources to manage all the contributions, or give money to someone who you think knows better than them. Calling them egomaniacs is absurd, wrong and rude, and will get you nothing but downvotes on Lemmy

The Blender market is kinda revolutionary and noone really talks about it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (1 children)

yep! I laughed when I read that. GPL working precisely as intended.

The Blender market is kinda revolutionary and noone really talks about it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I guess discourse in software development is very normal (and needed) and in the case of free software, it is generally held publicly. Well they still give away their code for free. Everyone is allowed to do the same thing the blender foundation does - aquire resources to fund blender's development and sharing the product with everyone who wants to use it.

edit: reading the thread on blenderartists.. that developer seems to be a bit of a drama queen.. I can't comment on the technical things as I know close to nothing about it, but him being rude like that is not good for any working environment.

The Blender market is kinda revolutionary and noone really talks about it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I don't really want to argue in detail as I don't feel like your critizism is constructive or specific. You're right though, the blender devs aren't the good guys.. they are the best!

The Blender market is kinda revolutionary and noone really talks about it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (12 children)

right, since blender 2.8 it has been way more accessible for users to get into. I've always really liked blender's unique approach to design though. The Blender Devs work in the same building as their in-house animation studio. This kind of synergy has always come up with unique workflows that are crazy powerful and useful once you get behind it. right-click-select is one of these things. The devs at the Blender Institute are always surronded by artsists who have tons of ideas on how to make things faster to use for the artists.

The Blender market is kinda revolutionary and noone really talks about it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

probably - I think most studios would be okay with paying more, the prices are pretty fair compared to what's common in the industry. And on top of that they'd probably have to do without tech support from the devs which is quite important for studios

The Blender market is kinda revolutionary and noone really talks about it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

its true, but Autodesk's walled garden approach is starting to crumble. FBX is on the way to be replaces by USD, Rendering is on it's way to be streamlined by Hydra Delegates, and there are a bunch of projects by the ASWF that work on new open source standards for the industry.

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All code on the blendermarket is GPL. Yet, it sold over 25 million dollars worth of software. No DRM on the assets, all free software. Free as in freedom, not as in beer. In spite of that, I have not seen once anyone in the blender community complain about piracy, let alone have I seen anyone distribute any software or assets sold on the blendermarket unofficially. It just isn't a problem, or at least not more of a problem than on any other DRMed closed source alternative.

Around 10 years ago the developer of a closed source renderer called Corona ranted about Blender's GPL, as it prevented him from integrating his renderer into Blender without disclosing its source code:

Because entire Blender is covered by GPL licence, it is forbidden to link anything closed-source to it (not just commercial as in "you pay for it", but anything closed-source, which includes "it is free to use, but I won't give you my source code") [...]

We thought there were some loopholes, but it turns out the "Free" Software Foundation thought about them too and explicitly forbidden them. [...]

So, Blender has unusable licence. That is fine, any software developer is entitled to the choice of licence. If somebody wants to make a 3D studio legally usable only while not wearing underwear, he should be able to do it. What makes me angry is the whole FREE software ideology/advertisement. FSF goes on and on about "protecting users freedom". Their interpretation is:

being able to choose from free plugins: freedom

being able to choose from the same free plugins, plus also commercial plugins: less freedom.

Forbidding good Corona renderer integration for Blender is freedom. Allowing it would make Blender less free. [...]

I am not saying the OSS concept is wrong. There are other, much better and really free licences, like MIT/Apache/... If Blender would use any of them, we would start Corona for Blender right now. Too bad it uses the GPL bullshit. I feel bad for Blender users, because they will never have any fully-integrated commercial renderer plugin :/.

He feels bad for what? For users having a thriving software ecosystem with license that ensures it stays free and open forever? The Corona Dev wrote this 10 years ago, probably without realizing that blender was already on its way to become the most widely used 3D application. There are plenty of people making money developing comercial plugins for blender - and they are all GPL.

It makes me think about how much we all have been gaslit by the tech corporations that without DRM and that whole subscription-licenses nightmare they would run out of business. It is not true and we can point our fingers to the blender ecosystem to prove them wrong. I don't know.. I haven't seen anyone point this out yet.