That's basically what the author is pushing. Snowdrift.coop[1] is a platform for making small payments to open source projects, with the additional twist of a m

That's basically what the author is pushing. Snowdrift.coop[1] is a platform for making small payments to open source projects, with the additional twist of a matching donation mechanism. It's like Patreon with a twist. They plan to fun the platform as a project on the platform, rather than charging a percentage of each transaction like KickStarter does. I like the idea. If something like this caught on, it would give corporations a centralized place to support open source tools they rely on. [1] https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/intro https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/intro