Male_M3dia posted at 6:49AM Tue, 04 April 2017 - #4301501

False, Earl. Let's not do this today. And let's not do a blender-maya-max software war either.

Why do you think Clarkie was starting a software war? He made a perfectly fair comment.

There is no war to be had there, Blender already won that war the moment it became Open Source. Nothing can compete with Open Source packages like Blender, simply because, it can never be taken away from any of us, and all of use are free to develop it. The future is bright for those who learn to use Blender. The opposite is true for those who throw precious cash down the drain, hanging-on to dinosaurs.

Blender users have the advantage they can have any feature they like in Blender. They have the freedom to do it though, for example, crowdfunding any plugin they wish, and they don't need permission from anyone or any company to do so. No single person or entity owns Blender, it belongs to all of us, and that's a major part of why people are prepared to invest the time to learn it.

It's a major part of it's success, you cannot loose by learning Blender.