$3300 Needed to Open Source Aladdin 4D... How Much for Havok 2?

Aladdin 4D Nears Open Source Goal shows that is close to being open source:

Kermit Woodall writes "Only $3300 Remaining!! We're talking source code, trademarks and everything! Nova Design, Inc. has put the entire rights and source code to one of their top software titles, Aladdin 4D, on an exclusive offer to the Open Aladdin 4D group (www.openaladdin4d.com) who are raising the money for it. At this time we have raised enough money that only $3400 more is needed before Aladdin 4D is ours and Open Sourced!

What is Aladdin 4D? It's a powerful, but extremely easy-to-use, 3D modeling, rendering and animation package that includes the 3D tools that you'd expect as well as many unique features like relative time-based animation, an amazingly powerful particle system, and one of the fastest rendering systems on the desktop...

And from Aladdin 4D : Nova Design is selling Aladdin 4D into Open Source!:

Nova Design is selling Aladdin 4D into Open Source! We're talking source code, trademarks and everything! Nova Design, Inc. has put the entire rights and source code to one of their top software titles, Aladdin 4D, on an exclusive offer to the Open Aladdin 4D group (www.openaladdin4d.com) who are raising the money for it...

...The initial money raised through donations will be collected by the Open Aladdin 4D group, headed up by Nate Downes, and will be used to purchase Aladdin 4D from Nova Design. Nova has set the amount at only $37,579.83 which, as they've stated, is going to be used by them to pay off old bills. Compared to amounts raised for other Open Source projects, this is minor. Also, any money raised beyond this goal will be used for site costs, and rewards and bounty programs to encourage porting and further development of Aladdin 4D. We have plans for Aladdin's future, never fear!...

This all looks really cool and interesting considering my return to virtual worlds; then I looked here and saw that it is all for the Amiga. Well, shucks.

Still, it's a cool idea. How much would it cost for the Havok 2 engine to be open sourced for ? Hmm.

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