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Blender Fund Raises EUR18,000 In Three Days

dpm writes:"The Blender foundation looks like it might actually have a chance of raising the EUR 100,000 it needs to buy Blender from the NaN shareholders and make it Open Source. They started fundraising on Thursday, and they already have total pledges of EUR 18,025, with EUR 9,946 actually collected. See the money meter for the current status. If this actually works, what other non-profitable commercial software might we buy cheap and make Open Source? Old video games? Video editing software?"

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  1. MS? by zeth · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft Windows maybe? ;)

  2. Plan B by quintessent · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...it might actually have a chance of raising the EUR 100,000 it needs to buy Blender from the NaN shareholders...

    Of course, if they fail to raise the full amount, they may have to settle for a less expensive one from KitchenAid.

    1. Re:Plan B by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Whish!

      That's the sound of the joke flying over your head.

  3. I'm losing it.. by Kredal · · Score: 5, Funny

    I read it as Bender Fund Raises EUR18,000... Like they were trying to save Futurama or something.

    I'll go back to my cave now.

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  4. Seriously.... by nmnilsson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you just give that poor site the slashdot-click-o-death only to see:

    |_| 100,000
    |_| 90,000
    |_| 80,000
    |_| 70,000
    |_| 60,000
    |_| 50,000
    |_| 40,000
    |_| 30,000
    |x| 20,000
    |x| 10,000

    I though real geeks were immune to graphics :-)

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  5. Re:I hope this doesn't succede too well by Kredal · · Score: 4, Funny

    They just got my 5 bucks.. does this count as my good deed for the day? (:

    I don't even have a clue as to how to make pretty pictures with things like this. Ah well.

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  6. Re:I hope this doesn't succede too well by Psiren · · Score: 5, Funny

    If every Slashdotter that cared about Open Source does as I did, and eats beans and rice for lunch tomorrow...

    God no. Can you imagine the amount of gas 10000 bean-eating nerds can create? We'd wipe the ozone layer out in a second... ;)

  7. Re:Pay Open Source Programmers Instead by Gnulix · · Score: 2, Funny

    said that it was too late to change the official name because it would cause even more confusion than already exists.

    Why don't you tell him that it's too late to rename Linux as Gnu/linux, because it will only cause more confusion?

  8. Re:Tax deductible? by AvitarX · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you are truley that poor what is the tax deduction going to do?

    You get what, maybe 10 dollors back in 10 months?

    why not just check the couch cushuns every time your at a party?

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  9. Re:why write EUR 10000 and not just 10000� ? by The+Grey+Eminence · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure the list of those grandmas running Netscape 3 on Win 95 who regularly visit Slashdot is almost neverending.

  10. Re:Black and Decker make kitchen appliances? by Gordonjcp · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, sticking a food mixer "beater" into an electric drill is *excellent* for things where your normal mixer just doesn't whisk enough.

    You can make really fluffy merangues, and very thick but light mayonnaise, because of the extra speed. I recommend that you use a variable speed drill though, or stick it through a variac, because suddenly belting it up to 1800rpm will throw food all over your kitchen. And partially into the garden, if you aim it right.