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If you want to contribute to open source projects, you donate to the project if they have a direct way for donations Github takes a cut 10% from organizations,

If you want to contribute to open source projects, you donate to the project if they have a direct way for donations Github takes a cut 10% from organizations, so avoid doing that, nothing justify them receiving a cut from donations, they should be ashamed, unless it is to cover financial fees, but it's not specified, therefore it's for profit https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-github-sponsors/about-billing-for-github-sponsors https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-gith...

eyelidlessness 4y ago
They’re facilitating crowd funding for projects and providing a common, easily discovered and easily used interface to do so, with a relatively high degree of trust that a given transaction will be handled and distributed as advertised. This is not much different from Kickstarter etc (all of whom take a cut), other than having a much lower barrier to entry and probably a much longer tail of small contributions. Yes, of course you’re right that they’ll profit. Yes, it’s probably even profit-motivated to some extent. But it’s also a much needed public good. I’d rather it not benefit GitHub/Microsoft too, but if it meaningfully improves compensating people for open source work, that’s worlds better than not doing anything.