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

[Ulrike Schmidt <ulrike@example.com>]

Am 08.06.13 09:24, schrieb Stephen J. Turnbull:
> Ulrike Schmidt writes:
>
>   >  The first time I put money into a crowd funding project was because I
>   >  really liked this video project after I had seen the trailer and I
>   >  wanted to support them and have the dvd. It was not because I had spare
>   >  money.
>
> In that sense, nobody has spare money.  Of course people "really like"
> the projects.  Nevertheless, there are a *lot* of projects you will
> hear about in your life, the rate of mention will increase over time,
> and you will fund only a few of them.  The amount you actually fund is
> the "spare money" I'm talking about.  It's somewhat elastic according
> to your fondness for the projects, but not infinitely so.
I am funding all kind of projects in my daily live: the bakery next door 
for example. I have to make sure that I have enough spare change every 
day to keep on doing that.

The amount of software I buy has been changing in the last years. It 
used to be very few and expensive (Windows), changed to much at no cost 
(Linux) and has come to be quite an amount at comparatively little cost 
(Appstores). All due to the internet and its improvements. Also because 
of the internet I am hearing of more and more projects, quite 
independent of their funding.
>   >  I do not think it is a market that gets staturated, but an alternative
>   >  way to fund product development/other projects.
>
> The meaning of "saturation" is that the funding source is not infinite.
Sure, but that applies to everything you fund on this planet for your 
own survival, be it before or after is has been produced. After it has 
been produced might be a more secure way of investment. Funding it 
before it is produced gives you possibly some influence on the 
endproduct or on the chances that what you want is produced at all.