>Is there any other example like this where a failed company manages to leave us with something useful while its immense costs were just … evaporated? Blender'

>Is there any other example like this where a failed company manages to leave us with something useful while its immense costs were just … evaporated? Blender's original investors' capital not totally evaporated but the $100k buyout to release it as open source was a small fraction of their $4.5 million: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/getting_started/about/history.html#:~:text=The%20%E2%80%9CFree%20Blender%E2%80%9D%20campaign%20sought%20to%20raise https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/getting_started/ab...