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29 Jul 2024 02:28:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: This week's WTF moment  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 18 Jan 2013 09:42:41
Message: <50f95f61$1@news.povray.org>
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.


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