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Blender 3D Rendering Software Ransomed for EUR 100K
Posted by Ernest Miller on Sunday, October 13 @ 22:28:09 EDT OpenSource
Blender, what many consider the premiere 3D modeling/rendering program for Linux, has finally gone open source under the GPL (Welcome to the dot org era). What is interesting about this is the model they used to go open source. The Blender Foundation had to raise EUR 100K in order to buy the code from the shareholders of the company that had developed the project. Now if only something could be done about abandonware. Slashdot has the story (Blender is GPL), as well as the long history of Blender's evolution from proprietary code to open source (Slashdot: Search Blender).
 
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About abandonware . . . (Score: 1)
by JamesGrimmelmann on Monday, October 14 @ 08:16:35 EDT
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Two words: adverse possession.


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Re: Blender 3D Rendering Software Ransomed for EUR 100K (Score: 0)
by Anonymous (Name Withheld on Advice of Counsel) on Monday, October 14 @ 13:28:20 EDT
the premiere 3D modeling/rendering program for Linux?? I don't know a single studio that uses Blender for 3d Modeling when Maya is available for linux. Premiere cheap 3d modeling package maybe.


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