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The less money you spend on a paid blender alternative yhe more you have to spend on Amazon; this is a very well known strategy of commoditizing your complement: https://www.gwern.net/Complement



What do you mean by “paid blender alternative”? How does spending less money on it increase my AWS bill?


If you free up software subscription money, you can afford more AWS services


Ah, thanks (I could not parse the sentence somehow).

For an indie producer this is true in some ways.

From the point of view of AWS, if you have spent multiple thousands of dollars on a Houdini FX license you may in fact have more you could give them than a one-person indie shop on Blender, but knowing AWS’s pricing they will surely not mind getting both.

I wonder if Blender guys kindly told Amazon that they won’t spend time implementing or reviewing features required for various Thinkbox integrations unless Amazon forks over some support money.




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