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As a mid-level manager, I'd just whip out my personal credit card and expense it. In 20 years, nobody blinked. Ditto with taking a tax deduction from the IRS fo
by asah 5y ago
As a mid-level manager, I'd just whip out my personal credit card and expense it. In 20 years, nobody blinked. Ditto with taking a tax deduction from the IRS for my personal consulting work, which depends on FOSS.
IMHO the issue is that users are lazy and have truly-zero risk tolerance, and that in turn means that FOSS developers need a lot more money per donor, which in turn means fewer donors.
I'd like to see a single consolidated donation per unit time, that's then divvied up __based on your usage__ i.e. homebrew/apy/yum nags you from time to time and makes it one-click to make a decent-sized donation to the 100+ projects you actually use.
(obviously, there's disagreement about what "use" means, but the UI would make it easy for the donor to make adjustments...)
(and yes, I'm volunteering to work on something like this and/or help fund it)
- hinkley 5y agoWas that something you learned from someone else, or something you did because you didn't agree with how others had done it? I haven't run into a story like this often. Not in my own history, or talking to others over beers. I think you might not realize how unusual your reaction is, in the grand scheme of things. If you could try to convince some of your peers to do the same, a lot of people you never meet will benefit greatly by it.