Join Jonathan Williamson and myself, Jonathan Lampel, as we talk about how Blender's Open Source GPL license affects the users and creators of free and paid Blender addons.
If you make addons, use addons, or are just spectating the Twitter debates about addon piracy, this is a discussion you won't want to miss!
I get it when a hobbyist says: That addon is to expensive. But to stay on retopoflow, which is about 80 Dollar now (was a bit less the time I bought it): I charge more for an hour, and those are business expenses.
And anyone who used Cinema4D, maya or another paid packages knows that addons for those are much more expensive.
[Q] Are you ever afraid of how big companies could react if Blender, being free and open source, gets too big and becomes widely used even by big studios?
Thanks for the answer
@jlampel @jonathanwilliamson Not offesned at all :) To be clear I didn't meant to question the business model. It's based on from what I read during the "big argument" on twitter few months ago, and someone brought that up, which intrigued me. Thanks for making it clear!
[Q] Is there any pirated software right now install on your computers?
[Q] My thought about the same price: Paying for an addon is not only the price for the download. In most cases it is also for support, and as the addons are very different (some simple > simple support, some complex) they should not be the same price IMHO.
[Q] Lets go for the hard questions... Have any of you J's pirated any software ever in your life?
Please provide some options to edit or delete our comments. May be in Future.
exactly