OSS development is B2B professional services work and, while I think that allowing people to pay their rent with well-loved projects through easily sourced voluntary donations is a darn sight better than not receiving money, think that ultimately someone needs to sell a CTO/etc.
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My worry is that this might be a landgrab by cloning Patreon/OpenCollective, rather than a genuine attempt at moving forward the state of OSS funding. I don't really think we need more GitHub lock-in as a community. The 'free money' is suspect.
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(That 'indispensability' is primarily because GitHub has never behaved like a particularly good open-source citizen, and has always staunchly refused to support any form of federation/decentralization, despite Git being originally designed around that very concept.)
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