Blender Community Rescues Sources

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday September 7, 2002 @01:21AM from the take-the-power-back dept.

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."

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Re:Any other software Linux lacks? by paulbd · 2002-09-07 03:09 · Score: 5, Interesting

yes, and in fact the OSS community (in this case, myself and a small handful of others) already do!

ardour is my own contribution to this issue.

3 years of full-time unpaid labor, funded by income from amazon.com, tested in a commercial recording studio, aimed squarely at the high end market with low end costs.

its massive, its complex, its very very very hard for a novice to build, its only available from CVS at this time. do you think it will get better? you'd better believe it! package releases coming up within 6 weeks, v1.0 hopefully within 12 weeks.