148 sats \ 3 replies \ @Merlin 6 Aug 2022 freebie \ parent \ on: Buying versus donating bitcoin
Bitcoin is part of the open source ecosystem that encourages free products for all and donations to support the projects.
Just curious, have you ever managed or been a maintainer for an open source project that has gotten more than 10 unique contributors?
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I have let blogs use my photos and other YouTube channels use my clips without asking for money . From my experience i knew video streamers go behind a paywall and fall in obscurity and those that were donation based thrived. Paywalls are a complete turnoff but I have donated more frequently over time to content makers I liked. Sometimes larger sums to pick up the perceived slack from others. Like if wikipedia went behind a paywall, people would look for other sites.
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That's nice of you. If everyone thought and behaved like you do, we wouldn't have a problem.
Tragically, most people don't give donations. To anything, ever.
Aaaaaand that's why open-source gets taken advantage of by traditional market driven organizations that buy and sell.
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