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Blender made their opening conditional on getting support. They basically ran a crowdfunding campaign that said they would open source it when they reached X a
by rglullis 5y ago
Blender made their opening conditional on getting support. They basically ran a crowdfunding campaign that said they would open source it when they reached X amount of money. (I think it was 500k€ at the time) that was good not just financially but also because it worked as a marketing/awareness tool.
BMD could do is something similar. They could make every (yearly?) release closed but GPL it once their revenue hits a mark.
- therouwboat 5y agoThey had to buy rights from investors and it was 110k eur. https://www.blender.org/about/history/ https://www.blender.org/about/history/
- rglullis 5y agoYeah, thanks for the correction. I totally misremembered the order of events (I thought they were still open as a business when they created the foundation) and amounts.