This is very impressive, very nice post. However I don't really understand the idea of using Kickstarter to build a paid product. If the community pay for it, t

This is very impressive, very nice post. However I don't really understand the idea of using Kickstarter to build a paid product. If the community pay for it, then it should be free software. I don't mind it being proprietary, but then I don't see why people would put money to kickstart it. Especially since it seems to be working already.