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Presumably 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 t
by bspammer 5y ago
Presumably 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.