1. Replacing "scratch your own itch" by "scratch somebody else's itch" can be seen as an improvement over the original model.
2. AFAIK, "Kickstarter" does not imply "open source".
3. Even the Linus'es of this world occasionally stop hacking to eat, and food costs money.
Having said that, I think anything including the term "Emacs" is "scratching your own itch". I do not hold this as a paragon example of the usefulness of Kickstarter.
2. AFAIK, "Kickstarter" does not imply "open source".
3. Even the Linus'es of this world occasionally stop hacking to eat, and food costs money.
Having said that, I think anything including the term "Emacs" is "scratching your own itch". I do not hold this as a paragon example of the usefulness of Kickstarter.