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Are you sure? Software could conceivably fall under "Product".


Everything on the site could conceivably fall into "Product".

It seems fairly clear to me that they are just trying to prevent these kind of shenanigans: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/files/2012/09/bulbs.jp...

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/18/kickstarter...


There are a bunch of obvious technical mistakes in that, not least of which is that you're not effectively buying a WeMo and getting the bulb for free; only the more expensive master bulb will have WiFi support and the rest will talk to it over much cheaper 802.15.4 mesh networking.


From the comments in the linked blog, there was this comment "The new guideline prohibiting renderings applies only to projects categorized as Product Design or Hardware. Other categories, including Games, are not affected."

which came from Kickstarter's community manager.




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