[ChadNauseam]

The kickstarter model is awesome and should be used more but it clearly doesn't fully solve the problem. It works great for kickstarter because kickstarter projects aren't public goods (if you pay the money you get the thing you paid money for). In general it doesn't make as much sense for open source because you get the same thing whether you pay or not (unless you're the tiebreaker), so your incentive to pay is limited.