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

[Ulrike Schmidt <ulrike@example.com>]

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? ;-)