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Re:GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries by notatoad on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:16PM (#21447758)
>At the same time I don’t feel comfortable that funding is for a person not a project

i'm guessing this was an intentional choice to head off controversies about how a project divies up their GitHub sponsorship money. If everybody understants that they are giving to specific people, that avoids a lot of potential drama.

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Re:GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries by ronilan on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:24PM (#21448330)
I’m sure it’s intentional (this is a well-thought and well-executed feature). I also understand the logic.

I feel uncomfortable with it.

It creates patronage relationship between people and a) I personally do not want that kind of relationship and b) maybe I’m wrong (or stretching it a bit) but it feels like that’s not really the kind of relationship the tech industry needs more of.

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