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[Brandon Kruger]

On Sun April 20 2008 8:29:01 pm Nick Guenther wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Brandon Kruger <bmk789 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun April 20 2008 7:27:06 pm Kevin Dean wrote:
> >  > I'm happy paying $399 for all ye who feel the need to pay $400 to make
> >  > it even. :P Though, I'll hop on the even bandwagon if it's dropped as
> >  > long as Openmoko makes profit. :)
> >  >
> >  > If you really want to pay more, you could set up a "Tip a Developer"
> >  > program...
> >  >
> >  > -Kevin
> >  >
> >  > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Daniel Selinger <slite at gmx.at> wrote:
> >  > > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:11:59 +0200
> >  > >
> >  > >  "Alexey Feldgendler" <alexey at feldgendler.ru> wrote:
> >  > >  > The prices for GTA02 and the debug board are $399 and $99,
> >  > >  > respectively. While there's nothing wrong with charging exactly
> >  > >  > 99 dollars for something, the practice of reducing a round price
> >  > >  > by one dollar, AKA
> >  > >  > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing> is often
> >  > >  > associated with cheap marketing tricks, trying to make the price
> >  > >  > look less than it is and so on. In my opinion, admitting that a
> >  > >  > hundred is a hundred and charging $400 and $100 for GTA02 and the
> >  > >  > debug board would fit better into the OpenMoko spirit of openness
> >  > >  > and transparency. Especially when most of the other prices out
> >  > >  > there end with 95 or 99, a round price tag will send a message:
> >  > >  > "We're honest with you and aren't messing with your mind like
> >  > >  > others do".
> >  > >
> >  > >  nice thought
> >  > >  /sign
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > >
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> >  This "tip a programmer" idea is very interesting.  What does the
> > community think about setting up a site where people can say "We'll each
> > donate x amount once y feature is integrated" or something of the sort. 
> > This way, Openmoko can see what features are most important to the
> > community and the community would be able to donate to OM to help develop
> > and research future products.
>
> No, don't do this! For one, the overhead of managing that is and
> making sure all the details are fair to everyone is too much for what
> it'll pull in. For two, it'll mean that features get implemented, but
> not implemented well, and the coverage of features will be to the
> preferences of whoever (linux-land hacker, remember) pays the most,
> instead of what this phone needs to succeed commercially.
> Seriously, stay on track guys.
> -nick
>
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I wasn't suggesting we donate x amount to whatever developer achieves this.  
I'm suggesting a system where once some hardware or software feature is 
achieved, x users can contribute y dollar/euros to Openmoko to help fund 
future hardware/software development and research.  The donations would go as 
a generic donation to Openmoko, not to a specific developer for writing 
certain software.

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