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Blender's Open Movie Project
MrAndrews writes "I just read on the Blender home page that Ton Roosendaal is going to be creating an open movie project called "Orange", which should kick off development sometime in the fall: "The Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, have agreed on producing a 3D Animated Movie Short, to be created with the Open Source 3D suite Blender and other OS tools such as Yafray, Python, Verse, Gimp, and Cinepaint." Moreover: "... the resulting movie - including all the production files and software - will be published under an open public license." Open source entertainment is another step closer to reality!"
Just curious... at first with open source software I figured one was supposed to earn their living in hardware. Now people are demanding open source hardware and decrying closed hardware as evil... ok fine, but entertainment, surely one can earn a living there at least... nope, soon people who don't open source their movies will be 'evil'. "They can charge, but just give us the stuff for free too, you know, so we can use it" shut up. I am all for people sharing their work with each other, but the idea of attacking those who choose not to is upsetting. Huge Linux fan, but I am becoming disillusioned with what seems like a huge push towards communism. If this is in fact communism, can we please just call it that, otherwise I'd love a clear explanation of why it's not, besides "I hate corporations".