"Money doesn't interest me" - Ton Roosendaal 2017 Interview

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as the best account of Blender's history and its user-focused approach as a free software success story.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Blender Guru

Topic

blender history

Format

interview

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

7

HN mentions in dataset

13

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• Your last sentence reminded me of an interview with the Ton Rosendaal, the creator of Blender. He talks extensively about how Blender became OSS and not abandonware. I highly encourage to watch the whole interview (you need at least 5 mins to get used to …

• I reccomend watching this interview with him - at least the parts where he talks about money. It's incredibly refreshing to hear someone at the top of their game in the tech sphere say they're not interested in money except as a tool to help …

• The Blender story is quite an impressive one of iterative development. Ton Rosensaal very explicitly doesn't want technology for its own sake and wants to "get it out of the door", but does it all while keeping an eye on it being usable for creatives …