The main complaint (setting aside the preamble about bugs and feature delays) is that Juan (creator of Godot engine) raised $8.5 million for his company W4 Games and is now asking for donations to support Godot. W4 Games has the mission statement "strengthen the open source Godot ecosystem by providing companies with the commercial products and services they need."
Now from reading this post, I assumed the money was raised by some sort of crowdfunding and that backers may have been led to believe they were supporting Godot directly. And now they are being asked to donate again, and the money they gave previously is going to some private company.
But no, that's not the case. I looked up the press release[1] and the money was raised from VC firms.
So this guy is mad that Juan is not using the VC seed money he raised for a Godot-related company to fund Godot directly.
This seems like completely overblown and misplaced anger.
The main complaint (setting aside the preamble about bugs and feature delays) is that Juan (creator of Godot engine) raised $8.5 million for his company W4 Games and is now asking for donations to support Godot. W4 Games has the mission statement "strengthen the open source Godot ecosystem by providing companies with the commercial products and services they need."
Now from reading this post, I assumed the money was raised by some sort of crowdfunding and that backers may have been led to believe they were supporting Godot directly. And now they are being asked to donate again, and the money they gave previously is going to some private company.
But no, that's not the case. I looked up the press release[1] and the money was raised from VC firms.
So this guy is mad that Juan is not using the VC seed money he raised for a Godot-related company to fund Godot directly.
This seems like completely overblown and misplaced anger.
[1] https://w4games.com/2022/09/13/w4-games-raises-8-5-million-t...