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Something for nothing ?Something for nothing ?Posted Aug 16, 2012 23:06 UTC (Thu) by Tester (subscriber, #40675)Parent article: GUADEC: New funding models for open source software
I was at their talk and the impression I had was that the big problem with the donation "business model" is that you expect me to pay in return for nothing. Charity only works to a certain level. Charity does not work for hospitals, schools, helping the poor, etc. Users are compelled to pay directly or everyone through taxation. All of these endeavors that are much more important than software, why would you expect it to work for software?
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Something for nothing ? Posted Aug 16, 2012 23:11 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
There are a lot of hospitals, schools, and poor being helped as a result of Charity. Saying that it "does not work" requires a very specific definition of that phrase
Something for nothing ? Posted Aug 23, 2012 18:21 UTC (Thu) by Tester (subscriber, #40675) [Link]
I mean it does not work as in, it does not scale. You can not provide healthcare or education for everyone as charity, see how loads of people just don't get healthcare in the US as an example.
Something for nothing ? Posted Aug 24, 2012 2:47 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
US is kind of a exception among advanced western countries. Lots of them provide universal health care and it does scale.
Something for nothing ? Posted Aug 25, 2012 11:56 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Sure. None of them fund their universal healthcare entirely (or even mostly) via charitable donations though. There just aren't enough of them, and even if there were they aren't predictable enough. Healthcare capital investments are often huge and take years: you need to know the money *will* be there, before you start.
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