Facebook became the fifth large-scale technology company to become a corporate patron of the Blender Development Fund since its competitor Epic Games’ $1.2 million watershed donation last summer.
, like other company patrons AMD, Nvidia and Unity Technologies, Facebook contributes at least $120,000 per year, equivalent to the salary of two other full-time Blender developers.
In August of this year, the Blender Development Fund achieved its original goal of 100,000 Euros/month: enough to pay the salaries of 20 full-time core developers.
Since then, the Blender Fund has increased by 10,000 euros/month, which is 116,416 euros/month as of this writing.
Blender Development Fund's most controversial corporate sponsor to date? The news of
has caused a lot of positive and negative feedback on social media.
Although every company gets comments from Blender users, they worry about whether the donation will affect the future development of the software, but this time the sponsorship debate on Facebook is particularly intense.
You can see various opinions on Weibo where the Blender Foundation announced the news. A fairly pertinent comment section of
wrote: "Historically, Facebook is not good for privacy, not good for open source, and not good for our independent community, but I understand the need for funding." However, it is important to distinguish between accepting one. The organization’s funds may cause damage to the reputation of Blender, and the organization’s business practices are disliked by many users, and Facebook or other large corporate donors may "take over" Blender in some way.
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