f the company
that acquired Oculus.

Completely ignoring the facts that as a tech company, facebook really does a
lot of good things. Open Sourcing inhouse technology. Backer of the open
hardware project to mention two examples.

They all be better served to stay quite until it becomes evident that facebook
backtracked from their original statements and starts to call the shot at
Oculus. But that is of course not how angry, emotional people act. On the
internet or in real life.

I for one would have pre ordered the DK2 last week if I had the money and I
would pre order it today. And I look forward to call a lot of people out on
their hypocrisy once the final product launches and I notice people who swore
they were boycotting this and who swore they were so done with Oculus suddenly
raving about how great this thing is.

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tormeh
Crowd investment is already happening. Check out Seedrs. The companies are
mostly uninspiring, but that will hopefully change at some point.

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onehp
There's wefunder too ([https://wefunder.com/](https://wefunder.com/)) who are
getting set up to allow unaccredited (lower net worth) investors once the JOBS
act goes through.

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HelloMcFly
The font on that article is all over the place.

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dadrian
Agreed, I couldn't concentrate enough to even read it because the font kept
changing.

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siglesias
We already have "equity crowd funding." It's called an IPO.

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hershel
The main problem with crowdfunding is prevention of scams. The SEC which is
responsible for implementing this bill,have an expensive list of
demands(papers, lawyers) for companies wanting to go that route, making the
whole process not worthy for companies.

Until a solution for this problem will be found, it's hard to see crowd-
funding becoming an option.

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swalsh
What prevents scams on kickstarter?

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squidfood
A scam where you don't get one product you ordered is a different order of
magnitude than one where you lose a long-term stake in a company.

(For Kickstarter, it's the same thing that prevents