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>Your issue is with the amount they are giving, not with the fact that they giving No, my issues are manifold. With the slice of conversation I'm having with y
by fnord123 4y ago
>Your issue is with the amount they are giving, not with the fact that they giving
No, my issues are manifold. With the slice of conversation I'm having with you, the issue I am stressing here is that a one off payment of 500 USD is not "funding" in the sense that someone can quite their job or even go to a 4 day week and shore up their finances with it. It's a one off.
- rglullis 4y agoYou mentioned Patreon as an alternative. Do you think that the people supporting with $5/month shouldn't be considered "backers" or "funders"? You also mentioned the FOSS Foundations, like the PSF. Where do you think that their money comes from? I have $25/month sent their way to support the JazzBand devs. Do you think that I should stop my contribution just because it is so small in the grand scheme of things? Of course no one is going to quit their jobs over one company giving $500/year. But I'm failing to see how this is an issue. It's not like MS / Github are announcing they are going to hire all the FOSS devs from all projects they depend on. They just gave some money. Instead of looking at this and thinking "this is BS", why can't we look at this and think "Oh, nice! If even shitty companies like MS are starting to help, how can we get the better ones to do it too?"
- toastal 4y agoPatreon takes so much of a cut. I don't think this is the route, neither do I think letting Microsoft/GitHub take over the space is the alternative.