Quote from: TheFascistMind on October 07, 2014, 04:42:17 AM

Quote from: smooth on October 07, 2014, 04:40:05 AM

Quote from: TheFascistMind on October 07, 2014, 04:34:35 AM

How can a project ignore the investors?

It's actually quite easy. Seriously. You adopt the mentality of being an open source software project and not a get rich quick scheme and it pretty much follows from there. Attempts to influence from investors that lack technical merit (which is generally all of them) are treated with derision or laughed at.

I really can't believe that we are the only project to ever approach things in this manner, but given how hard it seems to be for people to get the concept, perhaps we are.

I claim you are deluding yourself. That happens. Step outside it objectively.

Believe what you like. The actual experience has been that any effort by investors to influence has resulted in nothing but hostility or ridicule. It is simply incompatible with the culture and DNA of the project. That is a fact. I'm sure some investors we both know would prefer otherwise. Too bad on them.