I have seen 2 recent posts hit the front page of Hacker News about open source project funding.

On the one hand people say “Hey! You decided to release it for free! You can’t now say you want money for it!”

The flip side of this is that these maintainers are welcome to walk away from the various projects they maintain, which could have dire consequences for the masses of websites which rely on them.

Various attempts have been made at trying to get donations to fund these maintainers, but there is one really big flaw: in a world of