ironsoul posted at 6:45AM Thu, 02 January 2020 - #4375212

Blender needs money to survive too, donations or from subscribers to their cloud service. I used to be a software developer so somewhat biased but someone from the creative industry sector arguing for free access to someone else's work seems to ignore the position they are also in. Open source software is great but I don't think the model can be applied to everything, people still need to get paid either directly or indirectly for the work they do.

I run a team of codemonkeys... and yep, we like to get paid. The little OSS projects are done on a volunteer basis, but the big ones (e.g. the Linux kernel as a huge ferinstance) are either adopted whole or in part, or are supported by a consortium. Often, companies fund their OSS efforts by selling support contracts and by selling popular-but-proprietary software on the side (ex. Redhat owns/sells JBoss to support RHEL.) Many are funded by their own non-profit foundations.

What I don't want to waste too many more chars on is that what you describe already happens.