Kickstarter sounds like a viable option for bringing more software to Linux if only for the reason that it's attracting a lot of attention lately. There is a d

Kickstarter sounds like a viable option for bringing more software to Linux if only for the reason that it's attracting a lot of attention lately. There is a danger of this making Linux a second-priority OS but it pretty much is already so I don't know if this is a huge issue. A team behind a proven software for Windows or OSX could say "Hey look we've made this great tool for Windows/OSX users and made a lot of money on it.. We'll bring it to Linux if we raise X amount of dollars". The Linux users are significant enough and generous enough (as proven by the humble bundles) that it would work financially and would make the Linux ecosystem explode with new variety. Open source developers on the other hand might find it easier to raise funds and continue to hack away on their projects with a similar solution. The Ardour developer could go on an open-sourced version of Kickstarter and say "Hey guys I've developed this awesome audio software that a lot of people use. Here are the features I'd like to bring to the next version.... I need to raise 100K in order to be able to continue working on this."