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?

[Angry White Guy]

From the website : Blender is a cross plaform 3D creation suite, allowing fully integrated modeling, animation, rendering, post production and interactive 3D creation and playback. We are in the process of bringing back the old Blender product website. For the time being check www.elysiun.com for more info.

Re:So, this means what?

[rknop]

So, blender is what?

It's a powerful 3d modelling/rendering/animation package. It's really quite impressive. You can download a binary version gratis now. (It's not the very latest version, but close; donating members get access to the latest released binary.)

A good full-featured 3d modelleing/rendering package was something that IMHO open source lacked and needed. Blender 3d fits the bill perfectly. Go to www.blender3d.com to learn more and to get the currently available binary.

(Wings 3d is another 3d modelling pacakge, which isn't as far along, but which shows a whole lot of promise. I'm pretty sure Wings 3d is also free software.)

-Rob

Another GPL conversion recently completed

[Rick Richardson]

Just thought I'd mention that due to a generous money donation by a private sponsor, the LinuxTrade software was converted to the GPL on 08/30/02.

This is a great trend, IMHO.