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Putting the legal discussion to one side, interestingly the donor signed a UTF-8 message in one of his transactions. It reads: "Qubes address? GrapheneOS addres

Putting the legal discussion to one side, interestingly the donor signed a UTF-8 message in one of his transactions. It reads: "Qubes address? GrapheneOS address?". Maybe implying he wants to give similar amounts to those two projects as well? Source: https://etherscan.io/tx/0xca5bb04204f446f73a510ea02b2bd7c01e16b58b1d16532a2a1be90d82820297 https://etherscan.io/tx/0xca5bb04204f446f73a510ea02b2bd7c01e...

throwprivateoo 4y ago
Do these products get written faster with more money? More people? It seems what they need is users.
- flerchin 4y ago
  Marketing would help to drive users, yes?
  - throwprivateoo 4y ago
    I agree. Although $300,000 is a drop in the bucket for paid advertising. Yet here we are talking about these things - Qubes, whatever this is... Then again what is the CTA? So puzzling.
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- cypress66 4y ago
  Of course. It's the difference between a hobby project that you spend your spare time on, and a full time job.
  - birdyrooster 4y ago
    Giving money for the project must be someone trying to kill it off
- miketery 4y ago
  Does bacteria grow with more sugar?
  - darig 4y ago
  - Mordisquitos 4y ago
    Not necessarily. Give a bacterial culture too high a concentration of sugar and the bacteria may even die from the resulting hypertonic osmotic pressure.
    - therein 4y ago
      Interestingly enough the same can happen when you do a cash infusion with too much money.
- asadlionpk 4y ago
  Money is a good motivator to convince others join forces.
- _8j50 4y ago
  I don't know about faster but they all sure could use money to hire better UX designers and QA testing pipeline and do UAT/marketing. But if their leadership just want to make another piece of software by niche enthusiasts for other niche enthusiasts of some topic then that money is wasted on them. A good example of where such money has become useful is Signal. Fulltime devs close more issues.

throwprivateoo 4y ago

Do these products get written faster with more money? More people? It seems what they need is users.

flerchin 4y ago
Marketing would help to drive users, yes?
- throwprivateoo 4y ago
  I agree. Although $300,000 is a drop in the bucket for paid advertising. Yet here we are talking about these things - Qubes, whatever this is... Then again what is the CTA? So puzzling.
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]
cypress66 4y ago
Of course. It's the difference between a hobby project that you spend your spare time on, and a full time job.
- birdyrooster 4y ago
  Giving money for the project must be someone trying to kill it off
miketery 4y ago
Does bacteria grow with more sugar?
- darig 4y ago
- Mordisquitos 4y ago
  Not necessarily. Give a bacterial culture too high a concentration of sugar and the bacteria may even die from the resulting hypertonic osmotic pressure.
  - therein 4y ago
    Interestingly enough the same can happen when you do a cash infusion with too much money.
asadlionpk 4y ago
Money is a good motivator to convince others join forces.
_8j50 4y ago
I don't know about faster but they all sure could use money to hire better UX designers and QA testing pipeline and do UAT/marketing. But if their leadership just want to make another piece of software by niche enthusiasts for other niche enthusiasts of some topic then that money is wasted on them. A good example of where such money has become useful is Signal. Fulltime devs close more issues.