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Re:GitHub Sponsors by diggan on Thursday May 23, 2019 @09:16AM (#19991423)
Hello there Devon!

I'd be interested to hear what the main reasons for not either a) building on top of existing open platforms (like OpenCollective) or b) doing your own service but building it open source and as a open platform?

Also, once the one year period is over, how are you planning to setup the fee structure?

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Re:GitHub Sponsors by stephenr on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:23AM (#19992583)
> doing your own service but building it open source and as a open platform

Why would they ever do this? Practically nothing they do is Open Source.

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Re:GitHub Sponsors by diggan on Thursday May 23, 2019 @12:01PM (#19992923)
Well, they trying to put themselves in the middle of open source. Why wouldn't they, if they really care about their users, not just getting profits?
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Re:GitHub Sponsors by stephenr on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:35PM (#19994542)
> if they really care about their users, not just getting profits?

[citation needed]

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Re:GitHub Sponsors by diggan on Thursday May 23, 2019 @04:59PM (#19995878)
It's a for-profit company who "loves" open source and hosts a lot of it's projects. But the platform is still not open source. Go figure
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Re:GitHub Sponsors by hanniabu on Thursday May 23, 2019 @10:09AM (#19991931)
This would be nice if there was some integration between the two.
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