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Which project(s) made you go “I can't believe this is open-source”?😎 (lemmy.ml)
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[–] trollblox_@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

wtf BLENDER is open source???

[–] ghosthand@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the thing is, blender wasn't always open source. And they wouldn't have been this successful if they were still closed.

[–] ollien@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Wow, TIL; I had always thought of it as an open source project, but I guess it wasn't always!

In May 2002, Roosendaal started the non-profit Blender Foundation, with the first goal to find a way to continue developing and promoting Blender as a community-based open-source project. On July 18, 2002, Roosendaal started the "Free Blender" campaign, a crowdfunding precursor.[19][20] The campaign aimed at open-sourcing Blender for a one-time payment of €100,000 (US$100,670 at the time), with the money being collected from the community.[21] On September 7, 2002, it was announced that they had collected enough funds and would release the Blender source code. Today, Blender is free and open-source software, largely developed by its community as well as 26 full-time employees and 12 freelancers employed by the Blender Institute.[22]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, there are quite a few forks of it too, eg. one for artists with a friendlier UI, a CAD-focused one, a game engine one etc.

[–] Haunting_Tale_5150@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Wow I never heard of these. Bforartists seems pretty interesting as a newbie to blender in general lol.