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thrownaway954 on May 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub Sponsors

this would a slam dunk if you could sponsor projects or organizations besides just developers. if that happened, this would destroy patreon and paypal in the donation space for OSS projects.

return1 on May 23, 2019 [–]

otoh, sponsoring developers avoids the friction between teams about how to share sponsorships etc. they should offer both though

techntoke on May 23, 2019 | [–]

No, it gives the owners of the team/org the ability to distribute funds as they wish. There should be no friction.

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