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Just learnt that @opencollect are a for-profit and take 10% of all donations. Any alternatives that are non-profit and have lower fees?
Imagine if Webpack got that 10%, would it mean Sokra could work on Webpack for another month without having to worry about funding?
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Nope! Gotta make that profit to appease the 25 investors. https://opencollective.com/faq#investors
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Opencollect has bills to pay as well. Employees, for example.
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Or they could have spent months setting up their legal entity, worry about accounting, and build up a website for donations /cc
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Webpack are in the JS Foundation, the things you list are literally their job.
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That 10% would probably go to setting up a legal entity to manage those funds (lawyers, accountants, etc).
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Most of the OS dev ends working for a big company. It is hard to keep up writing code for free.
some of them build companies for their proj -
Others build an paid ecosystem around their projects while the rest get tired and stop doing it
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