On Sun Jan 30 17:37:24 CET 2022, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > Just some thoughts while reading: > > "dangers of crowdfunding and of backing unproven open hardware" > > contains a contradiction in itself... How can something become proven > without funding by someone taking the risk of failure? And, products are > being polished by a process of discussing with real users. So it is a > hen&egg problem to have proven hardware before starting crowdfunding. It > would be VC funding plus normal sales.
I think it refers to products where there are not even prototypes at the start of the campaign. I believe the original goal of crowdfunding sites was to finance production more than fund research and development. > "But what if Purism, or some other company in the same position, collapses > financially and is unable to deliver on its promises, even with the best of > intentions? " > > Yes, I know. With the GTA04A5 the GTA04 project did collapse financially... > When we were hit by unexpected production issues. Here, the best intentions > and transparency did not help. But it did help... > "Transparency is a mark of sincerity and helps backers to trust the > crowdfunding project." > > It does not only help backers but also the project originators to sleep > well, even if the project failed. And the backers could see that there were problems and that things were tried to overcome them. > BTW: I know some of the guys and most of the projects mentioned... Some even > asked me to participate in running their project. On one hand I had plans > for an OMAP5 based "GTA15" but it was too risky for me to run such again, > especially in competition to the upcoming Librem5 and PinePhone. And I had > different personal goals and limitations.À At least the Pyra is progressing. I think of that as a successor to the GTA04 in some ways. David _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org
