Z:gnu-www-ja-rieti--77f4ca-People are creatively looking/en

People are creatively looking for ways to fund free software, and some [ways] work and some do not, as you might expect. For instance, last summer, there was a product that people had liked but was nonfree called Blender, and the business decided it was no use supporting this or selling this anymore. They discontinued it. But the developers did not want it to be discontinued, so they negotiated a deal: If they could raise $100,000, they could buy the rights and make it free software. So they went to the community, and in a few weeks they raised the money. Blender is now free software. This suggests that maybe we can raise money from the community in the same way to make specific extensions.