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It’s a shame but you also have to be realistic. People have to make a living.
You know, a "made with" blender film just won an Oscar. I bet Blender devs also have to make a living and I doubt they work for free.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s a shame but you also have to be realistic. People have to make a living.
You know, a "made with" blender film just won an Oscar. I bet Blender devs also have to make a living and I doubt they work for free.
Got to be realistic. That was one piece of software and it took decades and a team and plenty of free labor to get to where it is. People have to eat daily.
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It’s a shame but you also have to be realistic. People have to make a living.
You know, a "made with" blender film just won an Oscar. I bet Blender devs also have to make a living and I doubt they work for free.
Blender is amazing and I love it. That doesn’t mean that replicating their success is an easy feat or for everyone.
If it was easy to get the required funding, wouldn’t Synfig be in a position to rake in funds and hire people to improve Synfig?
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#25Is this one of those lifetime purchases where I have to pay again in 5 years when the developers realise they regretted offering a lifetime licence?
Their faq states that the license is valid for the current version (v1) and not for any future versions. So all they have to do is increase the version number when money is tight.
Meh, if they are following the affinity scheme, then a v2 would have a pretty good value add, and is worth it. I paid twice for affinity, and I’m still into the whole suite for less than a few months of creative cloud. Granted, this is one product, but I’d still much prefer a once off and upgrade fee vs a subscription.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know, a "made with" blender film just won an Oscar. I bet Blender devs also have to make a living and I doubt they work for free.
Got to be realistic. That was one piece of software and it took decades and a team and plenty of free labor to get to where it is. People have to eat daily.
FLOSS devs do eat daily. It's not developed by fasting people.
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#27There's a Github link but there are no repos. How do I package this for my favourite Linux distro?
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I find it interesting when folks criticize software for not being free / open source. There's nothing stopping you from creating the FOSS you are disappointed someone else didn't create - or from investing your own time into improving an existing project. I don't think we need to criticize someone else's choice to go a different path.
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#29There's a Github link but there are no repos. How do I package this for my favourite Linux distro?
You can't, we don't support Linux, but someone here suggested Synfig as an alternative.
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#30Expressive Animator gives you the right to use the current version of the software (v1) in perpetuity and entitles you to receive free updates until version 2 becomes available (no planned release date currently). So... is it the real lifetime license? What about the next versions?
So apparently it’s not your lifetime, it’s the lifetime of the software version. If you never upgrade then it could be your lifetime.
It's always the lifetime of the version or the lifetime of the software, never your lifetime.