I am nearly certain that more people have contributed to Blender than ever worked on Maya: https://www.blender.org/about/credits/ . You can’t compare commercial and OSS tools like this, ie employees-vs-contributors or revenue-vs-donations, it’s apples/orangeshttps://twitter.com/brentpatterson/status/1345226082790871040 …
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Bit of a tangent, but this reminds me about Scaleform. I'm not sure what the contracts were like when ADSK bought Scaleform from Brendan, Mike, and Maxim (RIP), but now that both it and Flash are dead, as a former Scaleform employee, I feel that ADSK should release the source.
It was the closest thing to a clean room, feature-parity emulation of Flash that has ever existed. It had to be. Handing it over to @textfiles or @internetarchive and letting them spin up an Emscripten port would be an enormous boon.
