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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?"

3 of 336 comments (clear)

  1. Commercial Software? by Peapod · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What about Windows? We could buy try and buy that one out. What do y'all think?

    -Peapod

  2. Must Be Some Incredible Blender by egg+troll · · Score: 0, Redundant

    100,000 Euros for a blender! It must be the be able to frappe steel or something for it to cost that much. Why I found a blender on Amazon for only $20.

    --

    C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
  3. What's the deal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://www.blender3d.com/deal.html

    The owner of Blender, NaN Holding BV, has decided on a definite new future for Blender. The independent non-profit organisation Blender Foundation will obtain a license to continue Blender development by publishing and maintaining the sources and make it 'free software' or 'open source' forever. What the NaN Holding shareholders and the Foundation agree on:

    1. publishing the full Blender sources, including old and new development, under the GNU GPL license ('Free Software'). The NaN mobile technology will not be included in this.

    2. the Foundation has to pay in advance a one time fee of 100k euro for this (100k USD). After payment, the sources will be opened.

    3. the Foundation will organize a funding campaign, and can exploit the old Blender website and re-establish e-shop services for this.

    4. the Foundation can offer an additional commercial non-copylefted (BSD style) license for companies to integrate with non-GPL projects.

    5. NaN Holding will be sufficiently enabled to (re)start business in the future, for example licensing derived technology or by offering professional services.