On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:26:35 -0300, nemesis wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:08:30 -0300, nemesis wrote:
>> 
>>>  When the company
>>> was closing doors, they realized the tool was quite complete and good
>>> enough perhaps not for going commercial
>> 
>> I understood that it used to be commercially available....
> 
> Not quite sure about that.  But the company was definitely closing doors
> and seemingly not interested in maintaining it though they saw its
> value.

http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/history/

It was released commercially by a company called "Not a Number" (or NaN), 
but was originally developed in-house by a Dutch animation studio.  NaN 
failed and sold Blender the community.

Jim

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