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0 pointsDonHopkins5y ago0 comments

And a huge grant from Unity:

https://www.blender.org/press/unity-joins-the-blender-develo...

And a huge grant from Facebook:

https://www.blender.org/press/facebook-joins-the-blender-dev...

0 pointsDonHopkins5y ago0 comments

And a huge grant from Unity:

https://www.blender.org/press/unity-joins-the-blender-develo...

And a huge grant from Facebook:

https://www.blender.org/press/facebook-joins-the-blender-dev...

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pabs35y ago· 4 in thread

The corporate patron rate seems like about 1-2 engineer salaries, so is huge the right way to describe these grants?

https://fund.blender.org/corporate-memberships/

ingenieros5y ago

You are thinking in bay area figures. The blender foundation is based in the Netherlands and engineers make far less in wages over in Europe. And lastly by open source standards those grants are quite significant.

n4r95y ago

First link says 100k euros per month supports 20 core engineers. That means 60k euros per engineer per annum, which is a decent salary in Europe.

pkaye5y ago

Imagine if they got the funding level of the Mozilla Corp.

john45324525y ago

Definitely not travel in first class and book exotic hotels i guess

jbay8085y ago

Awesome to see "commoditize your complements" in action here. I wish more companies caught on and supported free, open-source software like this.

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