I think if its a project that may make a profit, as long as its not a commercial deal, perhaps as long as they keep everything transparent and donate a percentage of the profit, like 25%, to geekhack may be good. Thoughts?
I disagree. Why should our community let others profiteer off of our community efforts without having to do anything themselves? It should be a 100% profit donation to geekhack in my opinion. Sherry/Hazel did all the work for the Exocet font, and they are using it to make money. I have no problem with this. But after seeing a complete lack of transparency with GMK, what's to stop vendors from using Cherry replica to subvert other community efforts if it's 100% free use?
As a vendor who would like to use these legends in an upcoming group buy, I would be willing to make a donation to GH as some sort of licensing fee, but I don't want to set precedent. I already messaged Hashbaz that I want to do as much as I can to contribute toward the project instead of just using them. Whether that is my time making .svgs, helping with funding, or contributing in some other way, I'm not looking to take advantage of other people's work. I do know that just about everyone here could go a long time without another WYSE set being made, so in the interest of those people, I'd like to do what I can to get them the legends they want if possible.
I think it's great you want to help with the GH project Rag, but your motive shouldn't be "I'm doing this because then I get to make money off of the community for doing them this favor", it should be "I'm doing this because I love GH, and I don't care about the time and money." I don't mean to insinuate that the former is your motive for volunteering, just want to make it clear it's neigh impossible for us to know. To that end, I think OTD has the right approach by banning any profits off of community projects, like the OTD 356 keyboards.
I have expressed my opinion on this as well, that when this set is polished it should replace the WYSE set for group buys and vendor sets. It benefits the GH users because they have more Cherry font sets available for them to purchase, whether they choose to join a group buy and front the money for production, or pay a vendor who fronted the money. In my opinion the more color options there are the better for the GH consumer.
I don't buy into this argument. 1) All vendors are driven by demand as a vendor, and there are people (a significant number I would reckon) who want WYSE sets. Therefore to say that WYSE is going to go the way of the dinosaur is based solely on demand at this moment is just not realistic. Demand does swing heavily in Cherry's favor right now, and a major lack of supply is a contributing factor. 2) I feel you are taking the old "Help me help you" position, and that is setting the consumer up for exploitation, if history teaches us anything.
I think further comments should probably be split off into it's own thread. Mods, what do you think?
Cheers,
P.S.
These are all my personal opinions on the matter at hand, and I do not intend to attack any member when using your name. I'm sorry if you are offended in any way, this is not my intent. I just want to have a cordial discussion and I really like this community!
