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“Charity” should be a question answered by “do they have a registered charity number?”
What’s considered a charity will differ country by country.
Only valid answer. If there's a valid document stating charity status, no other discussion is needed.
That would require them to care enough to figure out how to verify if something is a registered charity and what they are called in each country. Some countries don't even have the concept of registered charity in any form.
Right wing groups in the US made Planned Parenthood a political issue. It doesn't make it a political organization.
I feel sorry for Unity because I want them to be profitable and all that. However, they have a greedy prick for a CEO and one of the dumbest change rollouts I've seen (Twitter has been crazy bad lately too) at this scale. It wipes away any empathy for them and makes you yearn for their collapse.
I feel sorry for the employees, but ultimately the company chose the CEO it's not like he turned up and forced himself on them or anything. They were really pleased when they announced him as well, as if he was going to be some kind of asset.
It's the investors fault for having no business savvy. Sod em.
Devs may as well bite the bullet & switch engines mid development now, because I'm not buying any new games made in Unity.
Yup. I'm not either.
This (Unity change not your statement) will be a shank at the back of most indie devs.
So we're currently at the 'apology that actually makes things worse' phase, which means just a few more days until 'unconditional surrender but even so nobody will ever trust you again'
This is their downfall hiring that CEO and the leadership should be ashamed. I feel sorry for the employees who had no say in this and are being affected by their myopic choices.
I wish someone would put up a huge donation to Godot and offer to hire a number of these engine devs. I'm sure there's a ton of talented devs who would be willing to take a pay cut to work on a more open alternative.
A bunch of people contributing a little bit each month would also be huge:
https://www.patreon.com/godotengine
Please use the Godot Development Fund so more of your contribution goes to Godot.
Well as if it wasn't already obvious they were headed by conservatives...
It's like he heard that there was no such thing as bad publicity and took that is literally as he possibly could
He worked for EA. He has no idea how the industry works.
Didn't EA during a partnership with Nintendo, suggest to them crippling Mario's Jump Height in order to sell "High Jump Boots" as DLC?
Unity is working on hanging itself
Bankruptcy any%
Calling PP a political org is too obtuse a message to view this response as a simple mistake or miscommunication. Unity is apparently run by conservative hacks and I hope they collapse.
This isn't generic conservatism. Many Americans, who are conservative, support abortion rights. Unity seems to be in bed with far right political Christianity.
The unity CEO is an arsonist as he's set ablaze the whole company. Guy should be investigated for fraud and malfeasance.
he is challenging Elon Musk to a fuck (up) off. who can burn a company to the ground faster.
I think the Unity CEO is winning, but hard to tell, because next to Twitter, Musk is also fucking with Tesla and SpaceX
I can understand Planned Parenthood maybe, heavily disagree, but whatever.
But a children's hospital? How could that ever be classed as a "political group"?
What a joke.
By responding with judgment (e.g. your charitable donations are invalid ) Unity is showing how other devs can expect to be treated when they try to negotiate with Unity on a case-by-case basis.
This shows Unity is looking for bad faith reasons by which to justify rejecting exceptions to the fees. It's a bad idea to expect exception to the new fees, even in the face of bankruptcy.
Well I’m not going to buy any more Unity games, and I’m going to uninstall any Unity games I have. Fuck those guys.
But they don’t want to cure cancer - they want to turn people into dinosaurs!
As if I needed another reason not to use Unity.
planned parenthood is political yadda yadda yadda, but a children's hospital?
It's a registered 501c3. Whatever anybody's opinions, it's a legal charity.
Planned parenthood shouldn't be political. In a few years drinking water well be seen as a policial statement against brawndo
Seriously. I could see some right-wing shithead complaining about "evil" abortions, but who doesn't wanna save the lives of post-pregnancy children? Oh, that's right. Right-wing shitheads. As always.