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by EMIRELADERO 999 days ago
Also Blender. Best user-facing example out there IMO.
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Groxx 999 days ago
I think GIMP, Inkscape, Audacity, ffmpeg all fall into this category too.

Quite possibly a majority of GPL does.

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rafaelmn 999 days ago
Wasnt blender funded by government grants (although very small IIRC) and Epic ?
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j16sdiz 999 days ago
According to the annual report[1],

                           2021             2022
   Epic Mega Grant       € 334,609 16%     € 87,540  4%
   Dev. Fund patron      € 687,896 32%  € 1,073,684 49%
   Dev. Fund corporate   € 314,546 15%    € 218,000 10%
   Dev. Fund individual  € 364,032 17%    € 423,837 20%
   Blender Market        € 126,502  6%    € 155,673  7%
   Google Summer of Code   € 2,649  0%      € 2,003  0%
   Other large donations € 148,486  7%    € 160,819  7%
[1] https://download.blender.org/foundation/Blender-Foundation-A...
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