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I'm likely missing a lot of nuance coming from a finance background, but an "automated downtime unless a pre-announced funding target is reached" along with "high profile recognition of donaters" looks like it should work?
The likely outcome is abandonment of any such packages by the big cos that use them, destroying one of the main types of value open source creates.
I do think the intuition behind your suggestion is a good one, though, and may suggest solutions.
For an insight into the (collective) mentality at play here, the issues thread on one of @feross's experiments is instructive:https://github.com/standard/standard/issues/1381 …
I've heard whispers among maintainers about just such a scheme. If folks get fed up enough, I can see "an exception will be thrown during CI and testing (not in production) as long as a given funding target is not hit". I hope it doesn't come to this
In science the solution is institutions built around a true reputation economy, converting reputation for open revealing of knowledge (in papers) into economic outcomes (jobs). I'd like to see an open source institute (or > 1) do the same, especially for basic infrastructure.
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