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> getting better at begging vs better at selling seems to be the last point you make. Honestly I cannot see that as a honourable position of trade. Asking for
by joepie91_ 11y ago
> getting better at begging vs better at selling seems to be the last point you make. Honestly I cannot see that as a honourable position of trade.
Asking for donations is most certainly not begging, and I personally find that a somewhat offensive way to present it.
Donations are a voluntary contribution in return for some kind of work that was done; begging, by definition, isn't in return for anything. They are two fundamentally different concepts, just as different as 'accepting donations' versus 'selling'.
- lifeisstillgood 11y agoOk - sponsorship. Donations is to my mind a charitable endeavour - the small amount of change is thrown over and not considered. In fact lack of consideration is probably the right legal term. Sponsorship involves some contractural form to occur - and so implies a trade of value. To be fair you could have been saying get better at donations by rebranding them as sponsorship instead of better at soliciting uncontracted contributions. But I still think we need to find a new and better way to monetise OSS contributions.