i.e., it’s demonstrably not sufficient for an OSS to be popular, widely-deployed, and also sustain its maintainers.
1: In particular, it would be helpful if people could be funded to do exploratory work without worrying about being accused of fraud
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2: If their exploration doesn't pan out. I'd have a lot of trouble justifying setting up a Patreon for this reason.
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3/3: another issue is being subject to endless debates about whether the amount of $ donated is "too much"
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"why do you need $10k to write a webpack replacement?! I could do that in an afternoon"
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Ideally leave it up to the people deciding whether to fund or not.
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