alt Hacker NewsMaybe we should cut out the middle-man and make it easy for people to donate token credits to open-source projects, and let the maintainers decide how to use them.
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So that's how the sci-fi dystopias end up using "credits" for their money.
Unfortunately "I donated money/tokens to open source" doesn't land interviews as well as "I'm a big contributor to open source"
People spamming Open Source repos with AI PRs aren't trying to help Open Source, they're trying to build a brand, some kind of credible online presence with their username on it, or whatever else. It's purely selfish and completely opposite to the spirit of Open Software imo
How about just cash?
Ah yes, the for-profit companies that trained their commercial models off of all our open source code from the last 50 years need more money from us.
as an open source project maintainer, we dont want tokens bro, we want $.
Maybe we should cut out the middle man and make it easy for people to donate money to open-source projects, and let the maintainers decide whether to use them on tokens or hosting or developer salaries or something else.