Blender at one point was commercial software. Way back when... Then Elysiun (or whatever the company name was) asked folks about pricing, and somewhere along the line there was a suggestion to open source it. The people behind the open source idea actually managed to raise the money with fund raisers, donations, and such, and bought out the rights for the software... And then Blender went from being proprietary closed source to public open source...

I'm sure if you look around on the net, you can find the full story behind it.

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