The design is intended to better reconcile the needs and interests of developers and primary suppliers with those of the end user community. It reflects the need to support an open source development context offering a reasonable chance of recompense to those doing that development.

This is an example of a general model for gearing up delivery, building up stocks and orders and funding r&d in a context where reliance on conventional marketing models might delay distribution and inhibit development.

The basic idea is that half of each initial purchase of equipment is shipped directly, and the other half retained in a "bank" of equipment that is used to offer free trials to qualified cc system developers. When this process has generated enough orders for more mos to reduce the manufacturing costs by 50%, the "bank" is liquidated - the initial purchasers get their second delivery.

The first (unincorporated) bank of smarts is a virtual organization, with no ownership (having no net assets) but only an accounting of inputs and outputs.

When the costs of the first phase - staff, shipping, loss of mos - are recovered from revenues in the second, when costs are down and volume is up, the fubs is dissolved.

Those who finance the first stages of development and production are not penalised in the long run, so can better bear the higher costs at the outset.