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Why are we having opinions about how other people spend their time and money? People have been contributing to open source projects without any compensation for
by gmisra 13y ago
Why are we having opinions about how other people spend their time and money? People have been contributing to open source projects without any compensation for a lot longer than any of these on-line "tip" services have existed.
Why are we having opinions about how other people spend their time and money? People have been contributing to open source projects without any compensation for a lot longer than any of these on-line "tip" services have existed.
edit: Five minutes on Tip4Commit reveals:
Meaningful, feature-enhancing and bug-fixing commits to the linux kernel are earning ~$0.02 each
* 0.00002458 ɃTC https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3405d230b374b6923878b21b8d708d7db1f734ef https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3405d230b374b692387...
* 0.00002559 ɃTC https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fb5bb60cd004a00c1d11db680a37942ecdedb1c5 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fb5bb60cd004a00c1d1...
Meanwhile, storing a google drive mirror inside of a git repo and committing things that shouldn't even be in source control is generating $10+ per commit
* 0.01648708 BTC https://github.com/super3/Peercoin.net/commit/3921ceaa64ce394f0860b08b7cb783e13f3272e9 https://github.com/super3/Peercoin.net/commit/3921ceaa64ce39...
* 0.01632221 BTC https://github.com/super3/Peercoin.net/commit/574d0f43389ee089a82779eba3d9142b4de61a96 https://github.com/super3/Peercoin.net/commit/574d0f43389ee0...
Maybe Tip4Commit is just not a well designed system for allocating reward and value? As a developer working on something you care about, this kind of comparison could potentially be a turn-off from participating in the tip community.