Re:Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India
by 0815test on Sunday April 21, 2019 @09:57PM
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Crowdfunding does that. The product costs 0 once the funding threshold is met and the money is secured, but before that it costs >0 if you actually want the product to be developed. This aligns incentives quite well, if the model is used correctly.
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Re:Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India
by lreeves on Monday April 22, 2019 @07:40AM
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All of the crowdfunding projects I've participated in delivered a product (games, books, albums, hardware) that was sold as a normal product would be upon completion with the backers getting their rewards.
Patreon is maybe more what you're describing but that's not usually product-focused and is more patronage as the name implies.
Re:Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India
by pabs3 on Monday April 22, 2019 @08:17AM
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Here is a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign that resulted in open source code being added to the Linux kernel. This is from a company that usually does the same sort of work but is usually funded by other companies.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bootlin/allwinner-vpu-s... https://bootlin.com/blog/allwinner-vpu-crowdfunding/ https://bootlin.com/blog/tag/kickstarter/ https://bootlin.com/blog/allwinner-vpu-support-in-mainline-l... https://bootlin.com/blog/allwinner-vpu-campaign-one-year-ann...