Kickstarter: rails.app
Please excuse the language, but what the fuck is happening to our world right now?<p>What the hell has happened to "I want to build something, so I'll build it"?  Now you have to [1]pay $100 for the <i>privilege</i> of reading the mailing list for an <i>open source</i> project?  And some guy needs $25,000 just to <i>start</i> it?<p>Guys this is...not good.  Can you imagine if apache's kickstarter never got funded?  If the linux kernel's didn't?  What if MySQL didn't properly manage their prize levels?  Now it's "I want to build an alternative social network.  Bootstrap me with $200,000" or whatever that was.<p>Kickstarter is really cool for a lot of things, I see it [and contribute to it] for large-scale art projects (burning man), but now every hacker I know has got a $25,000 wall in front of them called "kickstarter" and they don't want to start working until they scale it.<p>Stop this.  This is <i>really</i> bad.<p>[1]: From the page: > [$100 gets you] access to the internal list for the project, where I'll be soliciting feedback about how to nail this. Great open source projects rarely come from the ideas of just one person, and your input will guarantee that Rails 4 is as great for beginners as it is for experienced developers.<p>What the hell is this?  I have to buy a ticket to "help steer the project"?  What happened to community?  We're charging a cover at the door now?