On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Louigi Verona <louigi.verona@gmail.com> wrote:

Notice, btw, that Blender was a commercial product initially. And it has full-time developers today. No magic. Just hard professional work.

more than 1 million EU from a variety of sources to get the Blender Foundation set up didn't hurt, either.