The Blender × Anthropic thing is an overreaction, but also not at all.

Anthropic is now a Corporate Patron of the Blender Development Fund.Blender, for those not in the know, is an industry standard 3D modeling, animation, and production pipeline. It also happens to be a Free and Open Source utility (licensed under a legit FOSS license).Anthropic is one of the evil AI profitmongers and there's been an enormous amount of backlash to all of this.Why this shouldn't be a problemWhat does the being a Corporate Patron mean? Well, according to Blender's own definition, quote:Corporate participation in the Development Fund does not imply alignment between Blender and the donor's mission, products, or strategy. That is not the purpose of the Fund. The only requirement for joining the Fund is to support Blender's mission: building the best 3D creation technology as free and open source software.I went to check the Wayback Machine to see if this policy has been changed recently due to the backlash. Sadly, I'm getting an HTTP 429 error. For now, let's assume this…