Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron (www.blender.org)

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/49567801

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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[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

To add to this, when forks do succeed, it's typically because they're either making very few changes which can easily be reapplied to new versions of the original project, or because a significant number of the existing developers disagree with the project lead and are just doing what they were already doing before the fork, just without having to obey one specific person.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

Exactly, taking over a large existing codebase is a herculean task. So, most forks just end up adding superficial changes on top and keeping upstream code as is.

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