> Ultimately its high time end-users organize some kind of funded entity to support open source projects and protect user interests. Create a virtual currency

> Ultimately its high time end-users organize some kind of funded entity to support open source projects and protect user interests. Create a virtual currency which mints fresh shares for open source developers who complete public prizes and bug bounties for GPL licensed software. Prizes can be publicly listed and disbursed to the wallet address of the correct winner using stakeholder voting among existing currency holders. The currency base can be bootstrapped by issuing shares to volunteer developers for completing work they would have otherwise done for free. Add in a mechanism for transferring and verifying ownership of shares between, and developers can potentially sell a portion of their shares for dollars in independent exchange markets, without the central organization having to directly collect revenues and hold cash itself.