On 02/23/2016 02:53 AM, gmail gregor wrote:
> Thank you for the answer.
>
> If i got it right, the gist of snowdrift is looking forward, thus
> changing the whole culture (hopefully/eventually) into sharing and
> giving one.
>
> Also, the term ransom is new to me (wich goes to show i am not reall
Thank you for the answer.
If i got it right, the gist of snowdrift is looking forward, thus
changing the whole culture (hopefully/eventually) into sharing and
giving one.
Also, the term ransom is new to me (wich goes to show i am not really
all too informed).
Still, was not referring so much to
On 02/22/2016 02:36 PM, Fabio Pesari wrote:
> On 02/21/2016 06:31 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote:
>>
>> BountySource is never going to be a broad solution. There have literally
>> been *dozens* of completely operating versions of bounty sites tried
>> over the past 15 years. It is literally the first thing a
On 02/21/2016 06:31 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote:
>
> BountySource is never going to be a broad solution. There have literally
> been *dozens* of completely operating versions of bounty sites tried
> over the past 15 years. It is literally the first thing almost everyone
> thinks about when they decide the
On 02/21/2016 08:19 AM, Fabio Pesari wrote:
> On 02/19/2016 06:36 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote:
>>
>> Just come help us with the existing effort!
>>
>> I and a few dozen other people have already been working hard for a long
>> time (and making great progress lately) on creating an entire holistic
>> platf
El 21 de febrero de 2016 16:19:21 GMT+00:00, Fabio Pesari
escribió:
>On 02/19/2016 06:36 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote:
>>
>> Just come help us with the existing effort!
>>
>> I and a few dozen other people have already been working hard for a
>long
>> time (and making great progress lately) on creating
On 02/19/2016 06:36 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote:
>
> Just come help us with the existing effort!
>
> I and a few dozen other people have already been working hard for a long
> time (and making great progress lately) on creating an entire holistic
> platform to address all these issues. Please come join u
On 02/20/2016 02:31 AM, gmail gregor wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> umm, firstly - i've been following libreplanet discussion group for a
> couple of years. Because i find the problematic it covers interesting
> (obviously). Still, this is my first letter.
>
> Just quickly went over snowdrift.coop and le
Hi Aaron,
umm, firstly - i've been following libreplanet discussion group for a
couple of years. Because i find the problematic it covers interesting
(obviously). Still, this is my first letter.
Just quickly went over snowdrift.coop and let me join in thanking you
for the effort. Also for many po
On 02/19/2016 09:56 AM, Pen-Yuan Hsing wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> Thanks for the link to snowdrift.coop! I have always wondered about how
> modern free (as in freedom) software projects can find a sustainable
> source of funding, I think free software advocates need to seriously
> tackle this issue, a
Hi Aaron,
Thanks for the link to snowdrift.coop! I have always wondered about how
modern free (as in freedom) software projects can find a sustainable
source of funding, I think free software advocates need to seriously
tackle this issue, and looks like lots of thought went into your
project'
On 02/19/2016 06:42 AM, Fabio Pesari wrote:
> Alice wants to build X, and Bob wants to fund Alice's effort. X is to be
> released under a free license.
>
> There's a problem, though: Bob doesn't want to pay in advance, because
> he's afraid Alice will not deliver X as promised. In a typical
> crow
Since there are more funders than developers shouldn't you favour
developers instead?
One of the core ideas of crowdfunding is that people would be more
willing to accept risk because they only fund a small amount in
conjunction with a lot of other funders. Alice still receives a large
amount of
On 02/19/2016 04:41 PM, Adam Van Ymeren wrote:
> Since there are more funders than developers shouldn't you favour
> developers instead?
Developers can rip off funders but funders can't rip off developers
(i.e. do a chargeback) with an escrow, so developers are favored already.
You can even the s
Alice wants to build X, and Bob wants to fund Alice's effort. X is to be
released under a free license.
There's a problem, though: Bob doesn't want to pay in advance, because
he's afraid Alice will not deliver X as promised. In a typical
crowdfunding scenario, there are hundreds of Bobs, so this i
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