-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/10/14 12:37, hellekin wrote: > *** Indeed, there's an inherent conflict of interest. But free > software, free hardware, and liberation technologies suffer a > systematic lack of resources. If the only alternative to capital > investment is either to rely on crowdfunding (i.e. pre-sales) or on > DARPA/DoD/NSA/CIA funding, or EU funding, we cannot go much > further: we're working with blood money.
Worth mentioning: Equity crowdfunding is an interesting alternative. Unlike reward-based crowdfunding, people who give money actually buy shares in the resulting company. Think of it as a mini-IPO. This could offer a funding mechanism for low-profit lib-tech activities that also gives shareholder rights to the early adopters. > So if investors actually care for their children's children, and > other people's children, and the success of humanity on Earth as a > species, they will realize that there's no exit strategy to this > planet except death. Is growing capital now profitable? Yes. Is > it profitable in the long run? Probably not. Is care-taking > profitable? No. Can we make it profitable? That is the > question. What, you mean the Divine Hand of the Market (TM) won't guide our species to salvation? :) Jens -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUYfyYAAoJEGrDVsHXOmiEqP0QAIFUB34atRIMm/y0wjLO4hsr p8Zl9qhe3RqKwPhK8r6E4eZbAtyDMpekgsocIJMFAbzqjmKcxj0p0q6ANxCi9sAk 0I0z4FDk9R37wUm1DMDQrMfty6nxfxPi7TW1BbnECywK1VuEycN5QqoA5WSL4X38 BKkZwG2ZW99yhRRgqAi2BT9LfUjviGcP/5o3b3EnH5l5VG1WTWF+LoPDKpXu51uK FhVA907ZXjmH+BlHZXT4S6XQA7vh6psgAIUnClc6j+FksPJ7eJCdcdLOJB4fDrQy I5W9VTBOzFxJo3oq1Wb/ZHk69RhFEb9syGIepPBpb6f8uj2FMunoW9gE7zGsQ/Uh 2KKr/I9nY2owRBlYZc5Qxfi66aDv2FtGjysB7QgztmW6WL4dVt1fkBJruUH06/9F fvVQRePIKYOWiG4DKwMDo5GlE7O26f6ENhbzgx8CBaGpW8BnlJHVL+h1gLoW8Avc HIX+2wt98kMY3V0Yi1glmA5wfhUCETd+S9tlIWAAMx7FxcjYmLKnEqcaZ7YOdMd+ TrUTux7HSvpEd+NO0YWEPhiOd5P962FpQdIslGaP00E6Sns9MSnGouMeGsZXq26i lzlTj1VKTIEDde3lDbf2UcwSwo6AiFeSoufH0sOrNDN6dwbUHLq0mvzKq6RudKlf DrtGQg41XbFzSjiEJ759 =R20D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
