I think of it as a mix of supporting a developer, and a project. There is a lot of trust in gittip, and that is a good thing. If I ever grow dissatisfied with t

I think of it as a mix of supporting a developer, and a project. There is a lot of trust in gittip, and that is a good thing. If I ever grow dissatisfied with the developer I am supporting, I can withdraw my support, with no hard feelings. I get some of these issues. I ran a middle school chess team for about five years. Sometimes I was paid, sometimes it was volunteer. There are different freedoms and pressures in each model. I think there is definitely a place for gittip in the OSS world.