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, Taiidan@gmx.com 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-workstatio...
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Paul Menzel