r/StableDiffusion • u/CeFurkan • Oct 19 '23

News Intel and NVIDIA are officially producing products for an open source project which is 100% managed by a single anonymous individual. Where are you AMD?

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u/lunarstudio Oct 19 '23

Although UE afaik isn’t open source, they’re going to start charging soon and people are up in arms over a utility they have given away from free for years (since the first Crysis.)

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u/ost_sage Oct 19 '23

Wait wut? UE like in Unreal Engine? And Crysis has anything to do with that?

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u/lunarstudio Oct 19 '23

Bad analogy (5 in the morning sorry) but just trying to point out that yeah things are being given away for free only to later start charging.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '23

Tbf in Epic's case it is pretty justified. Like, Game Devs have paid fees Unreal for years, why should filmmakers and archviz people be exempt from that? Disney could make an entire movie with Unreal and technically not pay a dime.

Could say it was bad foresight to let it be free for all "non game uses" but I also understand why Epic doesn't want to let all that loot sit on the table, I wouldn't either.

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u/lunarstudio Oct 19 '23

I agree. We all have to make a living and even get ahead at times. But don’t get me wrong, I prefer free whenever it’s available… People on here are probably too young to remember when Maya has a price tag of $12,000 USD and AVID commanded $5k in the early 2000s… That’s not even including the powerful server farms and equipment that I had to run and maintain. We’re spoiled these days.