Re:Ask HN: Will the Oculus acquisition dampen funding of tec...
by mindcrime on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @03:31PM
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would you be less likely to fund tech-based projects on Kickstarter in the future?
No. Why in the heck would I do that?
What if the project's creators pledged a no acquisition policy?
No, that would be stupid.
How could that even be enforced?
More to the point, why would anybody even think to do that?
What, is everyone who contributes to a Kickstarter supposed to be operating under the belief that Real Life is some anti-capitalist-hippie-commune-love-fest where the companies that raise on Kickstarter ha ve to forevermore forswear the profit motive? Bollocks.
OK, I know nobody (where by "nobody" I mean "all the hipster wannabes") likes it when their favorite indy band signs with a major record label, or when their pet Open Source project becomes the seed of an evil capitalist for-profit enterprise. But ya know... they'll get over it.
No. Why in the heck would I do that?
What if the project's creators pledged a no acquisition policy?
No, that would be stupid.
How could that even be enforced?
More to the point, why would anybody even think to do that?
What, is everyone who contributes to a Kickstarter supposed to be operating under the belief that Real Life is some anti-capitalist-hippie-commune-love-fest where the companies that raise on Kickstarter ha ve to forevermore forswear the profit motive? Bollocks.
OK, I know nobody (where by "nobody" I mean "all the hipster wannabes") likes it when their favorite indy band signs with a major record label, or when their pet Open Source project becomes the seed of an evil capitalist for-profit enterprise. But ya know... they'll get over it.