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Blender Fund Raises EUR18,000 In Three Days

Posted by timothy on from the i'd-like-to-buy-write-now-from-apple dept.

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. 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.

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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... ;)

  5. 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.