700k from 60+ "founding donors" = an average of 11k per person.
These are people who have net worth values in the 10's to 100's of millions of dollars and they could only give ~10k to open source software?
My goodness we're cooked. The oligarchs are so unbelievably cheap.
OSE has a diverse community of donors, and most of them are not even close to that net worth level. Around 75% of our donors contributed in $1-200k range. We think that every donation matters, and hugely respect everybody supporting open source.
May I ask what it’s the right share of net worth one should donate to OSS? And what’s this share in your personal case?
They didn't get there by being nice so by definition they're cutthroat tight wads