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Re: [tlug] kickstarter for open source...



Am 14.06.13 10:17, schrieb Edward Middleton:
Maybe if it isn't worth your time and you can't find a couple of
thousand people willing to spend $1 dollar to fix the problem, it
doesn't matter enough to be worth fixing.

To be honest, what I see as being mostly ignored in all this is the
effort involved in finding the couple of thousand people willing to
spend a couple of dollars.

For your mailman example above, the question would be, how many people
actually use mailman in a way where a better spam filter would be worth
$1 in saved effort.  If this number is not a reasonable big multiple of
the number of contributers required to successfully fund a campaign, its
probably not going to work.

We could test this specific case empirically by setting up a crowdfunding campaign. Darren, how about another bet? ;-)



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