> The problem with FOSS is that too few developers have the willingness to ask for money directly, like selling binaries instead of sponsorships/donations Whil

> The problem with FOSS is that too few developers have the willingness to ask for money directly, like selling binaries instead of sponsorships/donations While I agree with you, this leads to confusion: the naive users from your first sentence then say, that they thought it is open source, why the author asks for money? This can be seen for example with android apps, that have GPL-licensed sources on Github, free binaries in F-droid and paid binaries in Google Apps Store. So basically the author is charging only a convenience fee, but this confusion still arises.