“Most importantly, this helps to change the open source narrative: you shouldn't feel like you need to work for free, especially if companies are actually making money off of your work.”, I swear I didn’t have a crystal ball for my RailsConf keynote
https://char.gd/blog/2019/github-is-building-the-developer-platform-we-always-needed …
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If your initial reaction was just “oh, OF COURSE donations are good. End of story!”, then I have a keynote for you to chew on.https://m.signalvnoise.com/open-source-beyond-the-market/ …
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There is of course also the risk here of GitHub (read MS) trying to become the payment platform for OS devs. Github would be to devs what YouTube/patreon is to creators. Not a good development long term.
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so what's *your* solution, then?
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I literally just heard a talk show audience "OOOoooooo" in my head.
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Agree. It's a nice idea, buuuut...
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You're kind to grant Microsoft the benefit of the doubt, even when it comes to intentions.
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Seen it small-scale turn consensus-driven-development into a bounty-driven-development... The result was "scrap the bounty system, it hurts everyone's interests". And I did think "it's a great idea!"... Little thought is harmful indeed.
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