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From Evil to Good: List of Formerly Closed-source Software

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 21, 2008

“Blender

“Blender is a 3D animation program which can be used for
modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, skinning, animating,
rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing,
compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications.

“Released in 1996 as proprietary, it was relicensed under GNU
General Public License (GPL) in 2003.”


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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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