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How much control does that give them? I don't suppose anyone would like to see Blender requiring a Facebook account?

They have plenty of corporate sponsors already:

https://fund.blender.org/

I'm generally a Facebook doomsayer but in this case I don't really see them being able to throw much weight around.

Looks like they get a name, a link, and a logo.

They get some say in the future development as well. Blender is a great example of how open source can work together with corporations.

Open Source has always worked with companies, which is why Micro$oft loves it - developers code for free, release the code under an open source licence, and companies just take that code, slap some features on it, rebrand it, and resell it under their proprietary licence.

It is free (as in freedom) software which companies usually don't like and we need more than ever.

What you write helps people in the world, but not open source. Blender gets significant amount of money from corporations in return of giving some control over the development process.

Hope they are donating to some other open-source without those.

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