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There is nothing wrong with being rewarded for your work. There could be uBlock Origin Pro for people who want to support it. It can offer no other feature oth
by freediver 5y ago
There is nothing wrong with being rewarded for your work.
There could be uBlock Origin Pro for people who want to support it. It can offer no other feature other than a Pro icon.
- bspammer 5y agoPresumably the feeling of doing good in the world is reward enough for them, especially if they already have more than enough money to get by (as most devs in the west do).
- freediver 5y agoNothing would prevent him to donating the excess money to causes he cares about?
- marginalia_nu 5y agoThere are other ways of supporting a project than via money. You can talk about it and recommend it to others. That can often be worth more than donations to an independent project that doesn't have much in terms of marketing capabilities.
- pjscott 5y agoWhen people donate to an open source software project, they probably aren't intending to donate to some other cause that the maintainer cares about. It would be at least slightly unethical to solicit donations for the former and spend them on the latter unless the donation page was exceptionally forthright about it.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoI'd totally pay for that.
- BeetleB 5y agoThere's nothing wrong with not accepting rewards for your work.
- fregante 5y agoIt's kind of weird to work for free though, isn't it? Sure it's something we like doing, but I really see no reason to reject free money. For uBlock this free money would be a fairly large amount, I'm sure. Even if that'd require some legal setup, I assume those fees will be largely covered.
- lwouis 5y agoMoney as the end-all-be-all is pretty new. I notice it a lot in American culture in particular. People have dedicated their life to all sorts of endeavors in the past, and still do of course. Big religions are a prime source of people doing large amounts of work for no money. It's quite odd to me to think that any activity i engage in should be to accumulate these tokens. Something i do stuff for the process itself. Sometimes to get a smile from people. Sometimes to see more beauty around me. Etc
- fregante 5y agoYeah but… money. You can’t pay rent with smiles. Accepting donations would probably mean having to work less at their main job. Or they could re-donate it. There are people willing and able to pay, leaving those money on the table is pure waste.
- lwouis 5y ago> You can’t pay rent with smiles. You do. Make an effort to think of the many cases in life where people do things for each other without money. Parents will host you for free, shelters do it, woofing or being au-pair, etc. Open-source can be run like a business, but it can just as well be run like a shelter, or language-enthusiasts club, and any other form of human social organization. In the same way, people do ride-sharing for a fee, yet you can also put your thumb in the air and people will gladly share their ride for free. Humanity has many facets to it
- nunez 5y agoThe amount of support that gorhill would need to respond to would be insane.
- derekpankaew 5y agoIt sounds like the amount of work he'd have to do, to be rewarded for his work, was not worth the work.