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239 points antome | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 04:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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stevage ◴[20 Nov 24 07:00 UTC] No.42191413[source]▶
It's really puzzling (but extremely welcome) that Blender continues to be such an open source success story. Seems rare for such complex pieces of software in a niche space to get that level of development. I wonder what the secret is.
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1. flohofwoe ◴[20 Nov 24 07:52 UTC] No.42191663[source]▶
Autodesk monopolizing the 3D tooling ecosystem and having entered an aggressive 'customer milking phase' via an overpriced subscription model about a decade ago played a very important part.
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2. swiftcoder ◴[20 Nov 24 13:39 UTC] No.42193838[source]▶
Yeah, I think this is definitely a good part of the driving force behind Blender's more recent successes.

That said, Adobe has been doing pretty much the same thing in all their spaces, and it hasn't spurred open-source competition in the same way (though plenty of proprietary competitors have been boosted by it)