Attached Link: Blender history

> Quote - I personally think that is Blender's goal - to eventually sell their software after they've laid long enough stake in society to train and accustom everyone as to familiarity and use with it. =)

You won't ever see Blender for sale.

It's been around for a long time now and the move to Open Source has probably been the best thing for it. If you don't want to shell out bucks for 3D software, try familiarising yourself with it. You can model, animate and render with it. It also has a compositor, video editor, fluid simulator, cloth dynamics, physics, particles, smoke......the list goes on. In short it pretty much does everything. It is not an easy program to get to grips with but there are literally thousands of tutorials (of varying usefulness) on the Internet, and an enthusiastic, helpful user base.

Click the link for a bit of history.