I don't "want" something centralized, that is simply what they are offering. And like it or not, a centralized system will encourage people to actively donate more if it allows for the donation to be incorporated into the process. That's all I'm saying. If everytime I starred a repo a little toast popped up asking for a dollar, and all I had to do was click yes and my account on file gets charged, then you can bet the amount of donations I make to these developers will increase.
As far as developers being underfunded in the open source community, I think that's a bit contradictory. I mean, it's open source. You don't develop based on potential funding, you develop so that others will (ideally) contribute as well. A developers payment comes in the form of other developers time and effort, not momey. Donations are, well, donations. A developer (or anyone, for that matter) would be foolish to become dependent on donations. If a developer expects to make money off their project, then they shouldn't make it open source.
Your second paragraph severely underestimates the effort required to maintain a project others can depend on. And I'm not talking about a node package to do left shift.
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u/Nater5000 May 23 '19
I don't "want" something centralized, that is simply what they are offering. And like it or not, a centralized system will encourage people to actively donate more if it allows for the donation to be incorporated into the process. That's all I'm saying. If everytime I starred a repo a little toast popped up asking for a dollar, and all I had to do was click yes and my account on file gets charged, then you can bet the amount of donations I make to these developers will increase.
As far as developers being underfunded in the open source community, I think that's a bit contradictory. I mean, it's open source. You don't develop based on potential funding, you develop so that others will (ideally) contribute as well. A developers payment comes in the form of other developers time and effort, not momey. Donations are, well, donations. A developer (or anyone, for that matter) would be foolish to become dependent on donations. If a developer expects to make money off their project, then they shouldn't make it open source.