Take it to the rational conclusions. A) Given the community supporting you as patrons, fully free/libre/open productions are the only ones that really deserve

Take it to the rational conclusions. A) Given the community supporting you as patrons, fully free/libre/open productions are the only ones that really deserve support. What justice is there for creators to retain All-Rights-Reserved monopoly when they are already getting paid up front? The works ought to all be free/libre/open. B) Patreon itself ought to be fully free/libre/open and run democratically as a cooperative (too late now, VC business model etc) Yes, every additional $ to FLO projects is a good thing. I don't think Patreon as a middle-man capturing $'s that would go to the projects anyway is good though. Hard to know what's the case often. The $'s are more a result of the project making a concerted effort to fundraise and would likely happen with the same concerted effort whether they use Patreon or another payment method.