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this is incredible work. are there for-profit entities or universities driving it? how much would this cost to do at a private sector company?


Private sector company would have to operate under the benevolent-dictator-for-life model in order to produce something with an underpinning philosophy on par with Blender's. That uncomfortable constraint alone makes it unlikely. Stated another way, the product of a combined effort by tens of thousands of enthusiasts made over a span almost two decades would be costly to duplicate and would probably reflect a different philosophy in it's design. The company can throw money at a project to buy developer time but it isn't quality time. Look at autodesk, why improve a product when you can just buy the competitor?




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