Dennis, That is the way I read it, too. It's not for developing full scale applications, as it is for developing tools that are important to the community. The *profit* is that, while one group of people are financing the development of one tool, another group is financing the development of another tool. The developers get compensated. The investors pay less each, than if they had to fund the whole development individually, and the community benefits, including the developers, by having an increased toolset of tools that were deemed important enough, that at least a few people voted for with their dollars (or euros or whatever).
However, this is a financial model, and not to be pessimistic, but there is more to it than just the idea. You need responsible third parties, maybe escrows, signoff criterion (which investorS means committee - always tricky), etc. Easier to talk about than do. Jim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dennis Brown Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; How to use Revolution Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] Ransomware as a Model for Rev Toolmaking? I don't think this was brought up as a way to create products for profit. It is a way to finance upgrading tools for everyone with the primary programmer being paid a reasonable hourly wage. Am I reading this wrong??? Dennis _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
