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Re:Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool by MBCook on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @11:16PM (#43490061)
Blender was open source software that was freed after the original developer couldn’t make money and, IIRC, was purchased by the community.

It did not start from scratch as OSS.

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Re:Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool by ants_everywhere on Thursday March 27, 2025 @06:58AM (#43492264)
Yes I'm aware of this. I don't feel that detracts from it. The author wanted to open source it and got it done with the help of the community.

It's not uncommon that someone champions the release of a project as open source and I think that is something we should encourage.

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