alt Hacker NewsYet, the Year of XYZ software seldom comes, the usual cheering of tools like Blender, often forgets its origin as commercial product and existing userbase.
Someone has to pay the bills for development effort, and when it based on volunteer work, it is mostly followers and not innovators.
There's nothing wrong with commercial software being the origin. What's a crime is that it can stay commercial. Source code should enter public domain in a decade at most.