Dear Elena,
Am Montag, den 12.12.2016, 14:50 +0100 schrieb Elena ``of Valhalla'': > On 2016-12-12 at 13:18:42 +0100, Łukasz Dobrowolski wrote: > > On 12/12/2016 03:27 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > (...) considering that the average linux sysadmin makes over > > > $100K per year the community could have easily funded the > > > project. > > > > In Germany, US, France... Not in Poland, Ukraine... many hackers there. > > Indeed. In my country 20k EUR per year is a good pay, but even with a > pay of 60k EUR|$ a year, that would mean paying the whole earnings of a > month for something that is still at the crowdfunding stage and may just > disappear into nothing. > > If you consider that people have to, well, live with that money, that > would mean multiple months of savings / disposable income. > > If somebody has a family, that probably goes in the range of expenses > that have to be negotiated with the other family members. > > All of this necessarily reduces the number of people who can even think > about partecipating in that crowdfunding, not to say actually decide to > put down their money for it. Unfortunately, I don’t agree. There was the option to support the project with less money. People can pledge $10, $250, or $500. In my opinion, everybody interested in user-controlled hardware would be able to spend at least $10. But it looks like there are well below 300 people interested in that. That is very sad to see, that people are not willing to support to kick-start such a project to maybe profit in the future from cheaper devices. In my opinion, people are ignorant about the locked-down hardware issue and some don’t care. On the other hand, I also think, that maybe marketing was probably not as successful as for other projects. At least I didn’t see a lot of marketing support from the FSF, FSFE, and EFF. The media also didn’t help very much. Thanks, Paul PS: Wikipedia is also asking for donations right now. Despite the bad things about Wikipedia, I guess most of us use it daily and want it to remain maintained and free of advertisement. [1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-secure-workstation
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