What’s in this for them?
…because I flat out don’t believe for an instant they’re doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.
Yes in MESH modelling. Blender could eat 3Ds Max. But not in NURBS and BIM. (I guess I am too much pedantic about '3D modelling' here.)
An exec at John Deere donated 500,000 to a 501c3 (non lobbying) for right to repair, which John deer the company matched. Doesn't mean the company is going to be supporting it anytime soon.
If we want to get into hypotheticals, it's within adobies line of products to get into 3D. Maybe they want to look into copy+pasting blender for their product line.
This is much like Mark Zuckerberg's donation to Diaspora [1], the decentralized and open source social network. It's a token donation to the opposition that isn't really viewed as a substantial threat. It can be pointed to internally and externally as a fig leaf, but it doesn't yield any strategic edge. It's cheap posturing, and it works.
They sell 3d assets and that portion of the company probably doesn't care what you use them in. Besides if they get you buying assets from them it is another channel to sell on.
After Effects doesn't have the physics engine necessary to make something like that, so it comes with a trial version of Maxon Cinema 4D. However that version is pretty limited and couldn't do what I needed. Presumably if I paid Maxon I could get the "full version" or whatever, but instead I went with Blender, which proved to be a very good tool.
Meanwhile, After Effects was effectively rendered (pun intended) irrelevant in that process. I assume Adobe is aware of this kind of thing and wants to keep itself as relevant as possible.
But Adobe recently acquired Allegorithmic and their 3D texture tool Substance.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/adobe-acquires-allegorithm...
This already happened, some sites wouldn't work in Firefox unless Firefox had the Chrome user agent string.
Also who is going to sue them? Firefox? That's like kicking yourself in the balls.
I think the investment has already paid for itself.
You must have had some concerns when other large companies were given board seats of other open source products because they had thrown hundreds of thousands of dollars? No?
You said 'one of those companies'. So I'm sure there are companies worse than Adobe that are already doing it. Then we will later complain that they will use this as a way of controlling the project.
> …because I flat out don’t believe for an instant they’re doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.
Don't blame you for your skepticism, but once the money rolls in, then everything is forgotten; as always.
The absolute state of HN.
Some people who buy don't see the "annual subscription" detail and then whine later
They specifically hide the details of the yearly subscription when you signup, and it’s the default option. The renewal, regardless of purchase date, is jan 1, the least likely time for people to be paying attention, and the renewal notice only lists them monthly charge. When you cancel, regardless of the amount of time remaining (that you still pay for), your subscription is terminated at the end of that month.
Yeah yeah, whinge whinge… but does it really make you feel better about yourself to mock others who have been basically scammed out of money by not reading the fine print?
Does it really matter which company does this kind of thing?
That seems quite mean to me… and that uncaring corporate profit at the cost of everything else is “the Adobe way”.
The other posts about Adobe wanting to create a paid marketplace to “monetise” blender seems to be the reason they’re doing this.
Surprise, surprise.
Adobe are a grade A asshole company abusing their near monopoly in their niches.