> I don't see any particular reason to especially condemn the donation model for that as if it is magically the root cause of the problem. I'm not saying it's

> I don't see any particular reason to especially condemn the donation model for that as if it is magically the root cause of the problem. I'm not saying it's the problem, I'm just saying it's probably not the solution, at least long term. As you say getting any revenue at all is always difficult, but off the top of my head I can think of way more business that are alive because of sales rather than donations.