I agree with you on principle, but I want to clarify this submission - the rest of this post is not directed at notsony. I was forced to truncate the title due

I agree with you on principle, but I want to clarify this submission - the rest of this post is not directed at notsony. I was forced to truncate the title due to HN's title character limit, so I removed the "Just got the okay from the @linuxfoundation to tell that..." part which is somewhat deceptive. Of course it was later edited to change "$60,000" to "60,000 USD," which is to me a meaningless edit (he's not Canadian or something) where more could have been done (like adding back some of "The contract was signed on Jan 28," but whatever. If you'll check back to the original article from yesterday [0] there is an update at the top which begins: > Update, Feb. 5, 2015, 8:10 p.m.: After this article appeared, Werner Koch informed us that last week he was awarded a one-time grant of $60,000 from Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative. Werner told us he only received permission to disclose it after our article published. Meanwhile, since our story was posted, donations flooded Werner's website donation page and he reached his funding goal of $137,000. In addition, Facebook and the online payment processor Stripe each pledged to donate $50,000 a year to Koch’s project. So yes, we still need to find a way to support these sorts of projects before they nearly collapse. But the Linux Foundation's requirement that he not disclose the contract until after the article was published means to me that they understood there would be an outpouring of support as a "reaction to social media news" and didn't want to hamper it with their $60k. Say what you want about reactionary social media trends, this, and the "Ice Bucket Challenge," but money is money and this isn't a zero-sum game. People donated who weren't going to two days ago, and while far from a perfect system, GPG is something we don't want to lose and these kinds of trends do help.