On Thursday, 10 May 2012 at 03:40:54 UTC, Michaël Larouche wrote:
It's a crazy idea I know, but maybe we could, as a community, buy the rights from Symantec. Blender was a close-source program originally and the open-source community raised money to buy the source code from the defunct company that made Blender.
I'd prefer to see LLVM used as the back end; mostly based on emerging technologies and it's likely a bit cleaner than GNU.
Anyways. If the community wants to buy the rights so we can free it, I guess it's just a matter of collecting the money and finding out what their price is, and they have to weigh the cost vs current and future possible profits. How much would it cost to buy it from them? $100K? $25K?
