So don't donate. I think its awesome that he's doing it, and the fact that he did CodeMirror open source should count for something. I think it's an excellent

So don't donate. I think its awesome that he's doing it, and the fact that he did CodeMirror open source should count for something. I think it's an excellent model. I hope it makes the target, so he doesn't have to go the closed source route with it. And I hope more people do things this way. Even if he doesn't continue developing it (leaving it to others to do so) or if he wants to write closed source plug ins, so what? That's not what the 10k is for. If he wants to make a big enhancement to it in a year and crowd fund that, I say go for it.