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Re:Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India by lreeves on Monday April 22, 2019 @07:40AM (#19718088)
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.

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Re:Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India by pabs3 on Monday April 22, 2019 @08:17AM (#19718298)
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...

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