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Blender Is GPL
BartV writes with a low-key snippet from the new blender.org: ""Today, Sunday oct 13, 2002, we've launched the Blender sources as GNU GPL to the Internet. Blender has become Free Software forever!" This should be a case study for other companies with software no longer profitable as payware; read some of our previous postings about Blender to follow the story from idea to release.
no even any comments and the article is gone. mysql errors all over the place.
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no chance of mirroring or copy and pasting the article even
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you appear to embody the quote about misery fondness for company and all that. i can understand not wanting to feel like the only loser in the world; however, don't presume that because you never got the girl or that noone talked to you at the keg parties, that they weren't worth going to for the rest of us. and certainly don't presume that i didn't/can't get the girl (or that noone else will, becuase someone has to), 'cause i did. :-) sorry if that stings you're already broken ego.
life/work is about hope, the hope that things can be better. the fact that blender was freed is inspiring. one down, infinity to go. if the amount of work left scares you, then you've picked the worst field in the world. where the tools evolve as fast or faster than the solutions we create. that's a programmers life.
i thank you for your hopeless and pessimistic outlook on such good news. keep in mind, quitters can't win. i hope that corner is comfy. i hope it has a nice view. at least something to occupy your mind away the world that has beaten like a dog.
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