Re:Companies should probably pay $2k per person for open sou...
by dhosek on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:43PM
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If you look closely you'll see that the banner on the linked site says:
“Gratipay: A pioneer in open source stability née gittip 2012–2017 RIP”
Apparently, after five years of trying to make a business of it, he gave up.
The article, by the way is from 2017. Perhaps a mod should add that to the link title.
* There's nothing about who is doing this or why.
* There's no way to actually pay that I could find.
* There's no information about overhead, or if the GratiPay is pocketing the money.
It's just a half-baked half-finished web page. I think a good not-for-profit here might be helpful? But I'm not sure how to structure it so that it is. I don't see why a business would actually want to pay. Most managers believe they have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value. This doesn't help.
And the money raised? I'm not sure a serious analysis has been done by anyone. As an open source author, I'm not inclined to even deposit a $0.32 royalty check.