Now, I think that it is ok to make money using Blender. It is a good thing to do. BUT it should be done always with respect for those who have devoted their time to improving and developing the software and services around it. And with the utmost respect to the entire community when you are going to rebrand Blender. Looking at the site of 3DMagix I cannot see any of the above. I see a foul attempt to rid people of their precious money (which they very probably could better spend on their families) through a whole lot of tactics that to my eye look like everything that spam and scams do.

In short: making money with Blender is good, but not when it is through scams, bringing Blender and its community a bad name and by abusing the works from others.

I call for all bloggers around the world to write about this and to link to the Blendernation and blender.org articles. This we can’t let go without counter-measures.