Here is the manipulation, Stan: the above list is purely theoretical at this stage.
You pretend we have a choice but actually we don't.
As long as CNX is the only player capable of implementing changes affecting BitShares protocol - this is a one-man show.
DPOS and shareholders voting on worker proposals is pure fiction at this stage.
We (the shareholders) did not have a choice between Stealth and Maker. We were offered Stealth or nothing. So we chose Stealth.
Now again the same thing is happening: we do not have a choice between DEX and MAS. We are offered MAS or nothing.
So my appeal to CNX is this: be fair and offer us a choice. You are welcome to propose a vision but do not force this vision upon us (the shareholders).
And to have a choice we must wait till there is at least one more development team in the ecosystem capable of offering worker proposals as complex as Prediction Markets or Maker.
Then CNX will have every right to propose MAS as an alternative to DEX and let the shareholders actually choose between MAS and DEX (or choose to finance both).
I don't want to have developers who have a vision.
I want developers who are happy to be paid for implementing the vision of the shareholders.
As we have it now, it got all mixed up: we have developers and vision creators as one entity.
Which leaves us with this "choice": share their vision or sell.
Then you need to find developers who think your way.
Are you asking us to quit being visionaries?
If we had to give up being developers or give up being visionaries, which do you think we would choose?
Here's what we have done:
We have made the results of all our efforts open source for others to build on.
We have encouraged a host of other entrepreneurs to build their own businesses.
We have provided several funding mechanisms (referrals, workers, FBAs, etc.) to make that easier for them than it has ever been.
We have offered to build whatever entrepreneurs want to fund.
What else can we do?
Are you asking that we go create some more developer companies for you, so you will have a choice?
Well, we think the best way to cause more developers to come into existence it to create more opportunities for them.
This means attracting more users to generate demand for BitShares to increase the purchasing power to hire them or at least inspire them.
Users will attract entrepreneurs who will hire plain, non-visionary, developers and tell them what to develop.
If they hire us, we will dutifully build what they want - just like we are now doing for Onceuponatime.
If
we hire us with our own money, then naturally we will decide what we want to spend it on.
If you want to set the direction instead of CNX, the best way to do that is to raise funding for your vision.
Then you will have lots of developers standing in line. (Probably us too.)
Right now we are paying our own bills, so we get to set our own vision.
And we have (very fairly) left the door wide open for others to do the same.
Here's the way it works now for everyone:
1. Decide what you want.
2. Find like minded individuals who want what you want.
3. Work with them to raise funds to pay for what you want.
(Tap your piggy bank, propose a worker, do a FBA raise, build a community....)
4. Use those funds to hire developers to build what you want.
BitShares is a platform designed to make those four steps as easy as possible for everyone.