ankitmundada

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   by ankitmundada 4y ago

   Probably you would have contributed more had you received something in return. It needn't be money. Could be even something else. Humans need a reward to continue doing an action. No reward, no action.
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   by ankitmundada 4y ago

   I smell blockchains here...
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   by ankitmundada 4y ago

   Indeed, but most of these projects are really big & popular projects that the organization depends upon. New/Upcoming projects will still be left out due to this. But we should also note that individual donations can make a huge di
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   by ankitmundada 4y ago

   Yes, companies probably need to be donating more, but I also think individual donors can also do their bit.
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   by ankitmundada 4y ago

   Probably they're. But majority of the projects are not. Most of them are not even asking for it. Check this - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ckaestne/pdf/icse20-donations.pdf Just 0.2% npm packages asked for donatio
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   by ankitmundada 4y ago

   Like what?
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   by ankitmundada 4y ago

   It seems that donation based model is not sustainable for OSS. Even the latest report of Open Collective ( https://blog.opencollective.com/12m-for-open-source/ ) suggests that an OSS projects are receiving just ~4k USD p
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   Open source development is not sustainable(staltz.com)

   47 points by ankitmundada 4y ago|72 comments