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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. Pubic Service Announcement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Pubic Service Announcement

    Your attention please.

    Ahem.

    I hereby declare anyone who is not a U.S.A. fan to be a dirty, stinking, sweaty eurotrash flamer. Please take a shower; your swampy armpits are polluting the atmosphere.

    Thank you for attention. Please return to your normal business.

    Troll 194 of 196 from the annals of the Troll Library .

  2. Leaving at Once! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    As a smell European, I shall leave your wonderful land at once. I will return to Europe for much buttsex and a total lack of bathing, and take all my homoerotic countryman with me. Sorry to have inconvenienced you, AC.

  3. Simple solution by GigsVT · · Score: 0, Troll

    1. Counterfeit billions of Euros to flood the money supply, and weaken the euro.
    2. Donate $100 US which will convert to 100,000 EU
    3. Open Blender Source
    4. ????
    5. Profit!!

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  4. Something fishy.... by ClarkEvans · · Score: 1, Troll

    publishing the full Blender sources, including old and new development, under the GNU GPL license ... the Foundation has to pay in advance a one time fee of 100k euro for this (100k USD).

    Ok. Who is the foundation, where are it's organizing papers? Who is on its board, etc.

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

    Ohhh. This comes out of nowhere. Where is the proposed agreement with NaN? Does NaN get a cut of this money? Who sets the prices for this non-GPL licensing? Where does the money go? Who funds the access to non-GPL, is this part of the 100K?

    I don't know about you; but I'm skeptical. This is alot of money, and it's a bit short on details.