Blender is a powerful 3D design and rendering tool, now released as fully Open Source Software under the GPL license.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/13/1754204&mode=thread&tid=117 "Today, Sunday oct 13, 2002, we've launched the Blender sources as GNU GPL to the Internet. Blender has become Free Software forever!" This should be a case study for other companies with software no longer profitable as payware; read some of our previous postings about Blender to follow the story from idea to release.
