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For five years after Number Nine closed its doors, a former employee kept Number Nine's website up and running, with driver downloads and a forum available for self-help. A volunteer and #9 enthusiast provided regular, impromptu technical support on the forum for the last two and a half years the site was active. Several former employees checked in to help occasionally. The website finally went off the air for good in March 2005 and the ___domain name was taken over by an online gambling company.

In 2013 Francis Bruno from Silicon Spectrum tried to fund a [[open-source]] GPU based on a ''#9 Ticket To Ride IV'' derived design. Started on the [[crowdfunding]] platform [[kickstarter.com]] the campaign was unsuccessful as from the demandedrequested $200,000 only $13,000 were gathered.<ref>[http://www.tomshardware.de/gpu-open-source,news-249776.html Eine Open-Source-GPU bei Kickstarter] on tomshardware.de (Oktober 15, 2013)</ref><ref>[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/725991125/open-source-graphics-processor-gpu Open Source Graphics Processor (GPU)] on [[kickstarter.com]] by Francis Bruno</ref> Despite this, source code was released under a GPL3 license in August 2014. <ref>{{ cite web|url=https://github.com/asicguy/gplgpu | title=GPL v3 2D/3D graphics engine in verilog | accessdate=2016-07-26}}</ref>

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