[Bf-committers] The future of FBX and/or other formats in Blender

[Vicente Carro]

Well, instead of crowdfunding, that I think it's not going to work, I would
suggest to officially (Ton) talk with Unreal, Unity, Valve and maybe some
of the blender partners and expose the problem to them. If possible make
them talk all together. Since all of them have some interest in FBX working
in Blender probably they can agree to have a guy maintaining FBX for
Blender or to give us other solution.

Vicente

On 10 February 2016 at 14:48, David Fenner <d4vidfenner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2016-02-10 11:28 GMT-03:00 Fabio Pesari <fabio at pesari.eu>:
>
> > , but if it "dies" in
> > terms of fewer contributions due to poor funding, it will be exactly
> > because of people who would rather buy* expensive proprietary programs
> > than donate at least 1/3 of that money to Blender. Why the double
> standard?
> > * = in some cases, rent, because many of those other programs use DRM
> >     and are subscription-based.
>
>
> Talking about double standard here is waaay too idealistic. Users buy
> software when they need to, and when open source software meets all their
> needs, they donate when they can or want. Still, having thousands of users
> using blender is still better for the software, since studios do develop
> for blender for time to time, they also contribute bug reports, ideas,
> sometimes money, and they spread the use of the software, which makes big
> studios start to develop also for blender. Is an ecosystem based on users.
> Sadly, people don't appreciate what they have until they can lose it, and
> that's what I'm saying that maybe fbx export should be crowdfunded.
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