On 18-1-2013 15:43, Francois Labreque wrote:
> Le 2013-01-16 19:40, Jim Henderson a écrit :
>> Well, there are plenty of companies that take old versions and make then
>> available for free - or commercial products that are now OSS (Blender,
>> for example).
>
> Blender - the software - has been free for as long as I remember.
> Initially, the company thought they would make money from sales of the
> user manual.  Like RedHat makes money from selling Linux support to
> large companies.


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

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