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European Union Contributes To Blender Development
kyknos.org writes "As officially announced yesterday, the European committee has granted 1.9 Million euro funding to Uni-verse. This three-year cooperation project around Verse, a 3d network protocol, intends to develop a networked open source 3D platform which includes collaborative tools, 3D rendering systems and acoustics simulation.
As partner in the Uni-verse consortium, the Blender Foundation has been granted 140.000 euro to finance further professionalizing services at blender.org, and enable long term research and development support for a next generation open source 3D tool. The consortium has been founded by the Stockholm Technical University (KTH), which also employs the original Verse developers Eskil Steenberg and Emil Brink. The other development partners are the Interactive Institute Sweden, the Helsinki University of Technology, the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics and the Blender Foundation. Application testing and content creation will be done by Paregos Mediadesign Sweden and MinusPlus architects in Hungary."
Let's see. We have Europe(good socialists), open source(the panacea to all problems), and European socialists funding open sores. Yep, it doesn't get any better than that.
Don't forget to mod this one down too asswipe.
Pull your head out of your ass for once in your life. The eurotrash middle-class live like our poor do. The standard of living in the U.S. is so much higher than the EUrinal its laughable. But continue to believe in your socialist utopia while the EU continues its decline into 3rd worldom.
You must run Windows.