On 3 Jun 2003, Raymond Toy wrote:
> However, didn't some group buy the source code from someday recently?
> An account was set up and volunteers donated money until a sufficient
> sum was obtained to buy the code. I think about $50000 was raised.
> Sorry, if this is overly vague, but I don't remember the details at
> all.
This is Blender, a 3-d rendering software, see www.blender.org.
The code was bought for 100,000 EUR. This amount was raised during 7
weeks.
But, probably, there are many more people who want to produce nice
pictures than who want to derive those boring formulas...
Andrey