| Why do you need Kickstarter for this? Why don't you build it first and if it gets popular then ask for donations? What about the open source projects you're building on top of? Are you going to give any of those programmers some money? > Yes. We're starting with the critical bit - the client - out in the open in JS w/ off-the-shelf open-source. Needs many eyes. Frankly, I'm sick of people jumping on the "open-source" bandwagon and diverting resources from those who truly deserve it or who have a track record in the field they are asking funds for. You know, people like Stallman and Torvalds took risk and bore the opportunity cost of spending time to build things they believed in and had passion for. It seems too many of todays entrepreneurs are afraid of taking risk and want to pass it onto the public. I especially dislike what App.net did, conning people into giving money to build a closed source platform and then selling part of that company to venture capitalists. |
Is there a list of deserving people that gets curated by someone? I think that those who deserve are those that get support because what is being advertised is what people will pay for if they want it.
On the same note as those who truly deserve it I think that there are so many ideas and open source is not about a list of people but about whatever you want or need. Pushing back on new ideas is not necessarily the right thing to do. Vote with your money; support if you like something and walk away if you don't.