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Re:Cycles X by mattnewton on Friday April 23, 2021 @04:50PM (#26919041)
Presumably this happens because it’s mostly volunteer labour right? Hiring a person to solve those boring old but important-to-your-business issues seems like it could pay off at a certain number of maya licenses.

My guess is it mostly doesn’t happen because these shops aren’t in the software business and don’t want to be, so don’t know how to value engineers and don’t want to spend money on engineering they aren’t sure will pay off in this fiscal year.

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Re:Cycles X by edflsafoiewq on Friday April 23, 2021 @05:59PM (#26919696)
Blender is mostly developed by paid devs I think.
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Re:Cycles X by rguetzkow on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:31PM (#26919992)
I think there are quite a lot more developers contributing to the project than those employed by the Foundation or supported by developer grants [0]. However, the complex changes on the roadmap of Blender's development are planned and implemented by the core team.

[0]: https://www.blender.org/about/credits/

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Re:Cycles X by mattnewton on Saturday April 24, 2021 @03:22AM (#26922981)
Huh, TIL, thank you
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