Blender Community Rescues Sources

Christoffer Green writes "Today the Blender funding campaign went through the 100k limit, sufficient now to pay for the ransom fee needed to make Blender Open Sourced. The Blender Foundation aims to have the deal signed before October 1, do a pre-release for donating members only at October 5, organize a Blender Conference in Amsterdam October 11-12-13, and make the official CVS release on October 13 for everyone. This doesn't mean that you should stop donating though. The foundation still depends on your contributions to cover costs that have been made."

Comments

Re:So, this means what?

[cioxx]

So, blender is what?

A sensible man's 3d Studio Max

100k is a bit expensive

[cioxx]

I could swear, these things cost much less than that

Re:Jolly gosh darn it!

[vegetablespork]

For an example, click here.

Cool,

[ImaLamer]

I always thought the remarks that robot made were witty and funny.

Now that we get to tweak with him I hope we can do some really cool things and find out what the heck he really keeps in that chest of his.

Well, now we'll all get a look under his 'hood'.

Oh, wait, you mean Blender that 3D modeling program... shit what do we want that for?

Get the robot instead!

Re:Tend?

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe it will be a trend too. :)

Poll idea

[Anonymous Coward]

How often did you re-load the Blender money meter?

(*) Hourly
(*) Daily
(*) Weekly
(*) Fortnightly
(*) Cowboyneal

Now the 'chainedblender logo' image can be changed

[wahgnube]

Remove the chain in that image awwready. It's 'Free'd.