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I used blender since the beginning. It makes me so happy to see it evolve over the years, first to open source then to a widely supported project.

Donating my meager highschool pocket money to help buy the source code ended up being the most impactful thing I've done in life so far.

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My story is similar. I was near broke, but I was having so much fun with Blender at the time that I made the donation. I had been an Animation Master user on Amiga in the years before Ton bought the source code. Good times and great to see Blender flourish.

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