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NaN Closes Shop, The End of Blender?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the whats-your-vector-victor dept.

lowell writes "The shareholders and directors of NaN Holding BV, owners of Blender, have decided to terminate all activities of NaN Technologies BV and apply for its bankruptcy at the Amsterdam court. It means that effective today, all technology development and website activities around Blender will be frozen. " Nice app. Too bad really.

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  1. Floating point arithmetic improved! by IainHere · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow! No more NaN errors - I've been waiting for the IEEE to fix FP arithmetic for years now.

    1. Re:Floating point arithmetic improved! by clearcache · · Score: 3, Funny

      Right! NaN...seems like it described their cash flow, as well as their company...

  2. mmmmm.... by cswiii · · Score: 4, Funny

    "frozen"... "blender"...

    Thanks a lot! It's not even noon, and now I've got a craving for a good margarita :P.

  3. /me is sad by EricKrout.com · · Score: 3, Funny

    Effective today, all technology development and website activities around Blender will be frozen.

    Are you implying that the classic Rob Malda films "Duckpins" and "Hamster Havoc" will be the last we see from this budding star in the animation business?

    Surely you jest!

    MONOLINUX :: Get Your GNU On

  4. Re:FP arithmetic improved! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    FP arithmetic still sucks. At least five people claim FP per thread, when there can logically only be one. Just read at -1 and you'll see.

  5. Blender ... isn't that ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    the crazy robot on Futurama???? Oh well, there are rumors about shutting down the rest of Futurama, too ...

  6. Re:Blender? by AndyChrist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yah, and Dvorak is faster than Qwerty. Big deal. If the learning curve is too steep, it doesn't make any difference, it won't catch on. Except that Blender isn't just trying to win over people already used to something else, it IS genuinely less intuitive.

    It took me virtually no time at all to get used to the traditional 3 or 4 port view in other modellers. I tried poking around with blender for at least an hour without getting anywhere.

    With the traditional interface, you don't have to learn much to get started. This was apparantly not the case at least with early versions of Blender. And you only get one chance to make a first impression.

  7. Re:and i was going to... by mark-t · · Score: 4, Funny
    Am I like the inverse of midas? whatever i touch goes out of business... that really really sucks.
    I don't mean to be unsympathetic, but can you please start using Windows more?
    --
    File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
  8. OpenBlender is a bad idea... by i7dude · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...what if some little kid comes by and sticks their hand in there...ouch!!!

    ...what???

    dude.