We pulled this article. People were worried about the impact it might have on the company and that's certainly not our intention. April Fools joke gone bad  - sorry guys!
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Bart Veldhuizen
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.
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Ah, nuts I missed it.
Haha! It was a great one. I gotta be honest I believed it for the first few hours and was ready to party. You guys come up with the best ones.
I was hoping for Blender for CP/m.
Well, it was clever to me, at least.
It was the first thing I saw online today, started telling someone before finishing reading through, remembered what day it is, and realized I'd been had. :)
"April Fools joke gone bad" . . . are you kidding? The effect that open source applications alone and it's impact on commercial CG companies is huge itself. I don't see any reason an article posted on BN and the actual host would affect the Maxon itself. For those that missed it, you can read it on the actual site:
http://www.virgiliovasconcelos.com/index.php?sessao=blog&language=en&id=274
It's nothing BN personally hosted, so I don't see the reasoning behind removing a perfectly good joke.
Alright, gotcha. Makes sense. I posted a Blender April Fool's joke on my blog, but I think I may remove it... ;P
April fools jokes suck
Any news is good news. Any publicity is good publicity.
And as Maxon isn't traded at stock exchange, it can't kill their performance.
But maybe Autodesk was pissed off about the story of an "offensive offer" they made to Maxon.
I'm sure the guys can see the fun of a joke. By removing the article it seems BN is 'worried' about something even though they themselves didn't pull the joke themselves.
"people were worried..." hmm I certainly which people that would be. And reflecting bad on the company, comon, lol as if BN has such a HUGE impact on the complete CGI arena...
I'm almost certain Maxon an AutoDesk were even aware or care less. No need to pull the article when you pull our legs. Your own april fool joke still there though, heh...
Aarg! I didn't get to see it... Why can't you leave it up but put a disclaimer so people know it's a joke? :(
Even though it was a spoof, these types of things can be picked up by many other sites and by some who are unscrupulous and who might re-spin it as if it is real story. We didn't want this to take on a life of it's own in a negative format and hurt anyone or any company, especially in this bad economy.
some time joke can go too far,some thing like this they can sue blender foundation.this is one april we all will remember.
groumf.... how to spoil a perfectly good joke by being too serious.
I need to agree with "imbusy" - April jokes sucks BIG TIME. Every bloody April 1st I am starting day with reading those cheesy, made up news... How can anyone consider it funny after all those years - reminds a mystery for me.
THAT WAS AWESOME!
"Open source is not the future of CG anymore. It's already the present", concluded Paul Babb.
Muhehehe :-D
Removed before ze Germans come. :)
Was so funny and a kind of good thought as well. It would have been even funnier if you had maxon involved :D
Excellent joke. Very clever and not too obvious.
I guess everybody but me knows what the joke was.... :( Anybody care to explain?
waaah,! i want to read it!
too bad i miss it
The other joke about Blendernation being sold to Windows Fun magazine is still up, though.
It is an offense to write lies, making me (and may be other mature people) doubt anything you post.
Oh, well. One April Fool's joke is enough, I guess.
If the original BN posting's comments that were made under the name of Mr.Babb were from the real Mr. Babb, he took it with some humour. But he isn't the "big boss" of Maxon, he's CEO at Maxon's daughter in the US but maybe Maxon Computer GmbH (or Nemetschek Group) in Germany was less pleased with this kind of publicity.