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I know we need to sponsor more open source development but I worry removing the friction is going to turn open source dev into Youtube. Make the money easy to c
by greggman2 7y ago
I know we need to sponsor more open source development but I worry removing the friction is going to turn open source dev into Youtube. Make the money easy to collect and the vultures will appear from simple "take any project, rename, repost, profit!" (the licenses allow this) to just people trying to find any and every possible way to get the money pointed at them.
Even before this particular feature I've seen projects that are effectively 20 lines of code of glued together libraries asking for donations like they actually did something worthy of donation. (maybe there is some 20 line project out there actually worthy of donation but the examples I've seen are arguably not special 20 lines).
I'll cross my fingers we get mostly positives and few negatives.