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   Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 12:48:30 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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   • Kenney
   @kenney Blender and Godot started as closed source applications.
   
   Godot was closed source from 2001 until its developers decided to migrate away from Argentina in 2014, opening its source in the process.
   
   Blender started as an internal tool for an animation studio in 1994. It was released as closed freeware for SGI in 1998.
   
   When the studio dissolved Ton Roosendaal founded a new company and changed Blender into Shareware to fund further development.
   
   In 2002 the company went bankrupt and Ton Roosendaal decided to go the open source route. He opened a crowd funding campaign with a goal of collecting $100,000 to start the Blender Foundation and employ multiple paid developers. The goal was achieved later that year.
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     Kenney (kenney@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 12:48:31 JST Kenney

     Can we appreciate for a minute that at some point great people came together and created top tier free software that in the past would cost you thousands of dollars?