I think the article is more about crowdfunding and open source. Until now every single awesome open source project has managed to take off without a kickstarte

I think the article is more about crowdfunding and open source. Until now every single awesome open source project has managed to take off without a kickstarter campaign. Nowadays everyone promises to deliver an awesome open source project if you first provide funds. I have donated to many open source/free software projects, either directly or through crowdfunding when they had a specific goal (eg libre graphics meeting, a full time dev to refactor kdenlive). But I am really skeptical of someone who wants money before he delivers anything. Free software needs the kind of love that money can't buy in order to be successful. I will gladly help free software projects but not so gladly free software promises.