Re: Kickstarter was not successful... but it did help things...

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

On 11/19/13 13:06, Markus Hitter wrote:
> Am 19.11.2013 11:40, schrieb Markus Hitter:
> > That's exactly what happens. "Interesting" ideas are backed, solid work
> > not. Go, figure :-)
> P.S.: Perhaps I should add here, I consider this situation to be all but
> fortunate. It hurts severely.
>
> But no amount of personal hurt changes the world. We're in a KlickiBunti
> world and making things solid, well engineered and in alignment with
> science (physics in the case of printers) became sort of a hobby, even
> when done on the business target.
I agree totally with this slightly cinic observation. Still, that 
doesn't make improving/finishing/polishing gnustep less important. It is 
just not important per se, but must be "sold" through a more fashionable 
goal.

Your example with non-working 3d-printers very hyped against solid work: 
we could fill pages and pages.

Riccardo