Nicholas86 opened this issue on Jul 24, 2005 ยท 27 posts
ShawnDriscoll posted Sun, 24 July 2005 at 9:14 PM
maxxxmodelz wrote, "Free apps depend largely on word-of-mouth advertising, and if/when it gets to the point where they might become a threat to the big name apps... I think they will licensed or acquired by those big names first." I see popular free programs that have made a niche for themselves eventually having their companies bought and their software used as mere plugins under different names by the major 3D companies.