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You can see this num­bers at any time on the fund page. This lets the Blender Foundation employ 20 Developers to work on Blender full time. At the time of writ­ing this the Blender Foundation is receiv­ing rough­ly US$122,000 per month from ~5,000 indi­vid­u­als and 45 cor­po­ra­tions. Let’s look at how this is pos­si­ble but before we dive in, let’s see what free real­ly means here.īlender is free in both mean­ings: free of charge ( as in beer) and free as in freedom.īeing gratis or Open Source does­n’t mean devel­op­ing Blender does­n’t cost any mon­ey. It’s no won­der that in all these years there have been very few open source mod­el­ling suites besides Blender, and none of them seemed to grow beyond basic poly­gon mod­el­ling.

We’re talk­ing about one of the most math inten­sive prob­lem domains in soft­ware.