Blender Foundation (Open source 3D software) Sold Out it's Audience to Evil Corporations Microsoft and Facebook, so I let them know WE know. Dear Blender foundation,  Why are you allowing corporate interests to join your board, when they were SO vehemently opposed to open source for over 2 decades, taking active measures politically and financially to destroy open source?  I will answer for you: because you feel you need money, and you don't care any more about what your users think about letting anarcho-corporatists infiltrate open source and put secret telemetry backdoors into your software. You don't care if you alienate your entire audience, when they find out that you sold them out, by allowing corporatists to put telemetry or "helpful ML assistant code" that does work in blender "on the cloud" but secretly, they are surveilling your users THROUGH the plugins, extension, applications, modules or other software they've made to integrate into blender Microsoft was already caught sending every keypress in their now 'open source' visual studio code to their azure cloud, meaning that microsoft now gets to peer into, and possibly steal, their own users' codebases...  it's corporate espionage.   I've had enough, and I am frankly disgusted by blender foundation's decisions to work so closely with corporations that have SPIED on their users, BACKDOORED their users, forced their users to have diminished security settings through malicious top down updates, have tried very hard to fight against and corrupt open source, and have recently censored users online for having unpopular political opinions.  In a nutshell, I'm disgusted that you would work with these very evil, amoral corporations who don't share american values of equal access, equal opportunity and freedom of speech and the press and petitioning for a redress of grievances.   https://www.blender.org/press/facebook-joins-the-blender-development-fund/ https://www.blender.org/press/microsoft-joins-the-blender-development-fund/ I'm going to post this email to you online.  I mean blender no harm, it is EXCELLENT software that I use.  I am thankful for blender and the contributions by the open source community  I am serving in the interest OF that community, and I am drawing a red line at facebook and microsoft. Let the chips fall where they may.  Feel free to give no response to this email because you are cowards and don't want to have a grown up conversation with someone who is going to push back with a real and legitimate argument.