Paying for blender?

Posted By: Roel

Paying for blender? - 01/31/11 20:19

After I read the following post at the blender.org site,
it might be an idea to inform you about companies that sale 3d modelling/animation software, that is in fact free.

this post covers the topic more in detail:
http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/press/re-branding-blender/

and this are the sites that are trying to let people pay for FREE software:
http://www.illusionmage.com/
http://www.3dmagix.com/

I think most people won't trust these sites anyway, but it would be sad if they could make ANY money!

Posted By: Toast

Re: Paying for blender? - 01/31/11 22:22

Wow...
Just wow...

Let's see how long it takes until they'll put GIMP on their list too...

Posted By: lostclimate

Re: Paying for blender? - 01/31/11 22:32

you know this wouldnt even make me angry if there take was "heres our tutorials for some free software, we charge for them" BUT TO TAKE CREDIT FOR BLENDER ITSELF?!! and not only that, to use screenshots from other peoples work IN BLENDER?

Posted By: Slin

Re: Paying for blender? - 01/31/11 22:33

Wow, it looks like some really great software produced by a very reliable company!
I just ordered it, thanks a lot for the link!

Posted By: old_bill

Re: Paying for blender? - 02/01/11 12:00

Don't underestimate those pages, as they're made with a well known toolset for internet marketing, and the leads which are
routed onto them are in most cases already prepared by other sales funnels for buying the thing they expect to find there.

I don't support this but be sure the owner will make a good bunch of money with it...
And from a legal perspective he's allowed to do so, of course except for the images copyright infringements.

Posted By: Germanunkol

Re: Paying for blender? - 02/01/11 17:50

... which is why it's very stupid to use the images.

but, if I'm not mistaken blender's under a licence that makes sure you have to note it's blender if you redistribute it. Or isn't it? So it's not legal at all.

Posted By: Tiles

Re: Paying for blender? - 02/02/11 10:58

Yes, it is illegal.

Blender is aware of the problem by the way: http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/press/re-branding-blender/

Posted By: Pappenheimer

Re: Paying for blender? - 02/02/11 18:23

Quote:

How can YOU help?

A grass-roots solution is to push 3DMagix and IllusionMage from the top search results in Google, and replace them with a link to the article on Blender.org. This should warn people who are about to buy this �product�.

To do so, we�ll need as MANY well-formed incoming links on that page. Be sure to use the names 3DMagix and IllusionMage in the text part of the link. Here�s a piece of code that you can use on your own website:
<a href="http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/press/re-branding-blender/">3DMagix, 3DMagixPro, IllusionMage, scam</a>

Blendernation

Posted By: Joey

Re: Paying for blender? - 02/02/11 19:46

I'd replace scam with scum.

Posted By: AlbertoT

Re: Paying for blender? - 02/02/11 19:59

Did they copy also the tutorials ?
If so ,it can make some sense
Even though it is probably still illegal

Posted By: Machinery_Frank

Re: Paying for blender? - 02/03/11 09:43

Look what Ton Rosendal wrote, it is allowed to redistribute, to rebrand or to sell it. They just dont like that they use copyrighted images to do the marketing.

But really, if they do it right, like those companies selling different Linux-distributions, then it could make sense. Just imagine you could buy a cheap Blender 2.5 version in a shop with a good printed manual, with a telephone hotline and some video tutorials, samples and everything on a DVD. This is not a bad idea at all.

Posted By: Joey

Re: Paying for blender? - 02/03/11 13:29

Yes but not saying it's open source is wrong.

Posted By: AlbertoT

Re: Paying for blender? - 02/03/11 17:22

ok but in principle I agree with Frank
If these guys supply also a printed manual , DVD tutorials etc for a small amount then I dont see the scandal

Posted By: Quad

Re: Paying for blender? - 02/03/11 17:25

the scandal is using other artists' artwork.