"imagine a Sotheby's style auction clearinghouse for 'engineering art philanthropists' where pet projects are traded, sold and hung on walls" This portion is b

"imagine a Sotheby's style auction clearinghouse for 'engineering art philanthropists' where pet projects are traded, sold and hung on walls" This portion is basically the better parts of kickstarter. I've funded a movie about the 6502 microprocessor (kindly hurry up Jason Scott) and a CPM based single board computer and what boils down to a PDP-8 SBC and theres plenty of stuff I haven't funded in that category like software defined radio dev boards. The latter, corporate dystopia part, doesn't sound very appealing to me. "When collaborating on a joint art project" Observationally, much like novels, plays, paintings, poems... the product of one excellent mind is invariably better than any team production, both in lit and engineering. Team always falls short of the individual. This is a profound thoughtcrime, hope I don't get in much trouble for it. As for the weasel words, not all projects are necessarily artistic, good enough is often good enough, etc.