[Arm-netbook] A biggish 3D printer on kickstarter

[peter green]

joem wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 17:41 -0400, Christopher Havel wrote:
>   
>> Flexible funding. That's a little concerning... not necessarily an
>> out-and-out indicator of a scam, but a red flag to me nonetheless.
>>
>>     
> I am not sure where that comes from.
>
> I was under the impression flex funding implies they had
> all the resources they needed. So even an order for 1 unit
> will get built because they are already building it.
> There is video of working unit.
>   
I thought the whole point of crowdfunding campaigns was to deal with 
those situations where you had a good idea but needed a minimum ammount 
of committed funds to make it viable to move forward and where eaither 
more traditional funding routes had failed or the creator didn't want to 
give up control.

Flexible funding always strikes me as missing the point of a 
crowdfunding campaign and treating the crowdfunding site as merely an 
advertising and preorder site.