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A direct donation to the person(s) who create, maintain, and extend the software you love to use. There is no need in my mind for a platform to manage this or
by quaquaqua1 7y ago
A direct donation to the person(s) who create, maintain, and extend the software you love to use.
There is no need in my mind for a platform to manage this or gamify it unless things are very complex, I suppose.
In the USA, the IRS makes it pretty simple to report all of the transactions received like this, so there isn't even a need to have a foundation or any crazy legal structure.
The only bottleneck is that 99% of humans on this Earth seemingly do not feel compelled to just simply send someone money as a "thank you".
So we have merch stores and Patreon and Kickstarter as a symptom of all this.
- luckylion 7y ago> There is no need in my mind for a platform to manage this or gamify it unless things are very complex, I suppose. I'd prefer one platform just to make it easier to manage for me ("oof, my payment method needs to change ... where did I use the old one?"), and it would also help because you don't have each project spend time to set up their own infrastructure, deal with payment processors about problems etc.
- quaquaqua1 7y agoI do agree with you but at least those problems only take hours to fix and not days. It is ironic that one of the best ways to send money to someone with a US bank account or even just access to a US bank is a check. Sure, the bank is a platform, but is a very robust and secure one compared to say, Paypal, Venmo, Zelle, etc. All you need to do is mail someone a check with their name on it. They can then take a photo of it and deposit it into their bank. Everything is properly there for taxation and reporting so that you can be an aboveboard citizen, and you never have to worry about processing credit cards or chargebacks or disputes. A check is basically trackable cash.