You can thank the people who buy products in the Blender Store who help support Blender development.

I've supported several of such addon developments, which was looking for a certain level of financial support before releasing it freely-you can thank people like me who helped its development along and helped make it freely available. By the license terms of Blender, we can also sell addons, which is a great option to help steadily support the development of those addons-since most people don't donate. You bring up Linux, but fail to mention distributions like Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

There are various open-source products that are commercial but still open-source. Open-source software does NOT demand that all software that works with open-source software be free and open-source as well. The philosophy of open-source does NOT necessarily demand that you give away your product for free. YOU don't truly know what open-source is about. If anyone's displaying any 'dragon-like attitude' around here, it's you.īy the way, just because Chaos Group is selling a product DOES NOT mean they don't really know what open-source is about. So you can just stop acting like someone's trying to pour Nobody's forcing you to accept V-Ray-it's merely there available as an option. Why do you expect everyone to give every software for free? Because you can't afford it? Do you know what real professionals do? They work, using what they have, to get what they need.Įven Blender professionals put in a lot of costly time into developing Blender, and look for some aid from donations and profits to do so.

Vray for blender and maya