On 10/05/15 21:46, Mark Wieder wrote:
On 05/10/2015 02:56 AM, Richmond wrote:
Let me pause for a moment to have a few thoughts about the nature of
contracts:
Without disagreeing with anything else in your thoughtful missive, I'd
like to point out that Kickstarter is not contract-based. You pledge a
certain amount of money towards projects you're interested in seeing
move forward. If that pledge goal is reached within the predetermined
time frame then your account is charged, otherwise not. The maximum
value you can request for a project is $20 million, and sadly the only
unsuccessful project I helped fund didn't reach that amount, thus we
have no Death Star today.
But your pledge is not a guarantee that a project will succeed, wholly
or partially. The expectation, of course, is that it will, and the
pledge reward levels are based on that expectation. The originators of
Kickstarter projects are under no obligation to produce said rewards,
and even if they succeed other circumstances may cause unexpected
delays. As yet not all the Kickstarter projects I've helped fund have
completed. They may or may not... I see progress on all, some have run
into scheduling conflicts with publishers, deaths have intervened; as
with any project, life happens.
The HTML5 pledge drive, on the other hand, was not on Kickstarter, but
on some other platform (indiegogo? I forget), with different rules and
different expectations. I didn't follow it that closely, but indiegogo
is also not contract-based.
There is a written contract and there is a spoken contract, there is
also an unspoken moral contract.
While a Kickstarter campaign may not constitute a contract as such, it
does resemble something of the sort.
And, whether contract or not, when the recipients of the funds from a
Kickstarter campaign write about
a "few months" and that turns out not to be a few months but a few years
I do think it is not entirely
unreasonable for donors to feel disgruntled.
Just the other day I was helping out in the Ivan Vazov library here in
Plovdiv helping prepare a GANTT chart for
an EU funded project. Now all the participants at that meeting were well
aware that a GANTT chart is a road map
rather than something cast in stone (after all if all dependencies of a
deliverable are not satisfied in time things have
to be readjusted), but it was mentioned that the chart should something
that came near to what should actually happen.
Richmond.
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