From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Kickstarter for Emacs Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:43:59 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87wr5dfm9v.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334742283 31679 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2012 09:44:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:44:43 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 18 11:44:36 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SKRR9-0006HJ-S9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:44:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49139 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKRR9-0006cZ-A9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:44:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45215) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKRR0-0006az-RD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:44:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKRQv-00058f-Tc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:44:22 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36299) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKRQv-00058S-NF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:44:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SKRQs-00063E-C0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:44:14 +0200 Original-Received: from 94-21-222-225.pool.digikabel.hu ([94.21.222.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:44:14 +0200 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 94-21-222-225.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:44:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.21.222.225 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.62) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149747 Archived-At: Vyacheslav Gonakhchyan gmail.com> writes: > On kickstarter there is a reward system. The point is that you > can buy final product for a lower price. And then after the > completion of a project price goes up. That gives people > motivation to buy early.In emacs the only motivation is that > you know that the money will go towards completion of certain > feature. But there are no rewards because emacs is free. So I > think it won't be as much successful. The reward is your pet feature will finally get implemented in Emacs and you don't have to use an other editor/IDE for certain tasks. I think it's a pretty big reward. BTW, the coffescript compiler will be released with a BSD license for free and people are still donating: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1182995593/make-a-better-coffeescript-compiler?