I have done open source development for well over a decade, thousands of hours, tens of thousands of lines of code, and I can tell you:
Considering the amount of donations I got, it would have been much more profitable to clean toilets, to just go begging in the streets, collect bottles from public trash cans for the deposit, or just sell my body.
In fact let's have a look how much I got during the past 12 months for 250 hours of work:
$0.
Had I been working as someone who climbs onto roofs and cleans the dirt off of them I would have gotten this much for that in this country:
$16500
And then, as a cherry on top, you now demand that a giant monopoly, which is trying very hard to soak up as much of people's data as possible - without paying them for it! - should get a cut from donations for my work which I genereally give away for free.
Now I can understand that you did not know this when you wrote down your opinion!
But given that you do now, do you understand how insulting this feels? :) It actually itched me so much that I created this account solely for the purpose of telling you, and I would be very happy if you could change your mind :)
Thanks for making an account to comment. I went to sleep (live in Singapore).
100% open source does not pay money for the vast majority of people, and thank you for your contributions to the community.
I also hope you understand that I get that FOSS donations won't make a liveable wage. At the same time, we want to be thanked for our contributions to the community - I get that.
My point is - by throwing up a donation link, we're circumventing their process. What's the difference between throwing up a donation link vs a Apple/Android pay link in app? It's the network fees. We're trying to avoid those because we feel they're unfair (which they 100% are).
If the Apple/Android pay fee was the same as the donation link, the majority of the time, we be using Apple/Android pay. Why not?
We want the benefits of the Apple/Android distribution network without paying their fees because "We belong to FOSS".
Considering the amount of donations I got, it would have been much more profitable to clean toilets, to just go begging in the streets, collect bottles from public trash cans for the deposit, or just sell my body.
In fact let's have a look how much I got during the past 12 months for 250 hours of work:
$0.
Had I been working as someone who climbs onto roofs and cleans the dirt off of them I would have gotten this much for that in this country:
$16500
And then, as a cherry on top, you now demand that a giant monopoly, which is trying very hard to soak up as much of people's data as possible - without paying them for it! - should get a cut from donations for my work which I genereally give away for free.
Now I can understand that you did not know this when you wrote down your opinion!
But given that you do now, do you understand how insulting this feels? :) It actually itched me so much that I created this account solely for the purpose of telling you, and I would be very happy if you could change your mind :)