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I like the idea of donating to projects that benefit me, so the developers working on those projects have a financial incentive to continue doing so. For examp

I like the idea of donating to projects that benefit me, so the developers working on those projects have a financial incentive to continue doing so. For example, I'm interested in the Crystal language, so I give the project $10 a month. Yeah, it isn't much, but if enough people did this, it would allow open-source developers to make a living out of these projects, rather than being enslaved by them to the point they burn out.

tedmiston 9y ago
Something like Gratipay is good for facilitating that use case but I don't know that there are enough other devs out there willing to fund these projects themselves. At least I haven't seen one yet where the maintainer pulls in anything like a normal developer salary for their experience level.