Facebook has become a Corporate Patron of the Blender Foundation, which develops the free 3D modeling and animation package Blender. From the fourth quarter of 2020, money will begin to flow into Blender Foundation.
Facebook is developing your AR toolkit (augmented reality) with integration into Blender via separately downloadable add-on.
Previously, the fund's sponsors included companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Unity, Epic, and Ubisoft.
On social networks, almost every such news ends with Ton Roosendaal explaining that the participation of corporations does not in any way affect the project development roadmap. For beginners who do not understand how open source software projects and Blender in particular work, Nodevember organizer Luca Rood published Twitter thread explains.
Source: linux.org.ru