alt Hacker News700k from 60+ "founding donors" = an average of 11k per person.
These are people who have net worth values in the 10's to 100's of millions of dollars and they could only give ~10k to open source software?
My goodness we're cooked. The oligarchs are so unbelievably cheap.
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whattheheckheck • today at 1:21 AM
They didn't get there by being nice so by definition they're cutthroat tight wads
OSE has a diverse community of donors, and most of them are not even close to that net worth level. Around 75% of our donors contributed in $1-200k range. We think that every donation matters, and hugely respect everybody supporting open source.
May I ask what it’s the right share of net worth one should donate to OSS? And what’s this share in your personal case?