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

[Lauri Kasanen]

On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 21:33:42 +0100
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:58 PM, peter green <plugwash at p10link.net> wrote:
> 
> >> 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.
> 
>  ... in other words this is not a crowd-funding campaign at all, but a
> shopping opportunity.

You're missing the more cynical angle: they don't have enough to make
the product, *and* they don't think they'd reach the goal in a
traditional crowdfunding model.

With this they take what they can get, but the product may not get made
until/if they get more funding from somewhere else.

- Lauri