Re:Why don't you accept donations?
by bspammer on Monday December 06, 2021 @02:41PM
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Presumably the feeling of doing good in the world is reward enough for them, especially if they already have more than enough money to get by (as most devs in the west do).
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Nothing would prevent him to donating the excess money to causes he cares about?
When people donate to an open source software project, they probably aren't intending to donate to some other cause that the maintainer cares about. It would be at least slightly unethical to solicit donations for the former and spend them on the latter unless the donation page was exceptionally forthright about it.
Re:Why don't you accept donations?
by marginalia_nu on Monday December 06, 2021 @04:34PM
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There are other ways of supporting a project than via money. You can talk about it and recommend it to others. That can often be worth more than donations to an independent project that doesn't have much in terms of marketing capabilities.