kavazovangel: ...
I don't care if I'm allowed to decompile it or have the source code or whatever, forget the whole licensing stuff, $50,000 software is in no way free.
You mix different things together, either by accident or deliberately. With Kickstarter you donate money to projects. Sometimes they promise you some kind of reward. They are not obliged to it, but it's then like pre-ordering. If it's a commercial product all the others will have to pay for it later, if they want it. The profit will go purely to the initiators of the project.
With FOSS obviously they cannot promise you a copy of the software as reward, since everybody will get it for free. FOSS means you need to provide always the source code and this property is inherited further, effectively this sets the price to zero or near zero. So it's purely like a donation. Not different from any other donation campaign like Wikipedia is doing yearly.
In your model of thinking even Wikipedia would not be free because they rely on getting paid by donations. No donations - no Wikipedia. However compared to what Wikipedia delivers the price of continueing it is embarrassingly cheap. :)
Ah: I see a bit of a problem with the PressurePen project. Obviously additionally to the software the design of the necessary hardware is to be open sourced. You only get the design for free. You still need to find somebody that produces it. Kind of difficult to carry the FOSS concept over to physical products.
