I think axisdj deserves a ton of credit for "putting his money where his mouth is".
I think he deserves credit for doing something but my concern would be that he's actually putting someone else's money where his mouth is. I don't have anything against kick starter campaigns or the principal of investment but I'd be seriously concerned about what would happen in this case if it did reach it's financial goal because the proposition is woolly and ill defined. There's no time limit for delivery. It still has that 99% in there with no indication as to what the other 1% is or how it would be measured. There's no solid plan for how to move the project forward, just a few notions of paying Olaf or another bunch of devs to do the work, without having ensured or costed their services first, or to "come up with other ideas as we go along. And the figure of $150,000 dollars seems plucked out of the air to me. How was it arrived at? How will it be spent? It's not a business proposition, it's a dream he's asking people to pay for.

It actually doesn't look like the financial target will be hit (though I am surprised and impressed at the level of engagement it achieved so far) but I think failure to do so would not be the worst outcome. The worst outcome would be to hit the target, start spending the money, and then start hitting the realities of what is being proposed: time of delivery failing to meet unmanaged expectations; discovery that AxisDJ's 1% turns out to be crucially important to a significant proportion of the investors; discovery that Olaf's vision doesn't match AxisDJ's or the investors; discovery that there isn't a group of developers interested in developing a replacement using Lazarus; the risk that Olaf or the "group of devs" simply fails to deliver. None of these risks has even been examined, let alone addressed and planned for. Before AxisDJ started looking for investment he needed a properly planned and costed business plan and I see no evidence of that at all, I'm afraid.

Assuming the money is raised and you then find yourself unable to deliver due to any one of these unexamined risks, what then?

AxisDJ, a few posts back you said I was forcing you to thing like a politician. I hope not, that's not the point at all. I hope I'm forcing you to think like a business man.