On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:43:35 -0500, 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.

What I recall, Blender was once a commercial closed-source product, and 
the community bought the rights to distribute it as open source.

But I don't honestly know the specifics of the history prior to it 
becoming open source.

Jim

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