There's quite a bit of a spectrum between "trying to make a living doing open source" and "asking for people to pay for a house in one of the most expensive cities in the country - plus a private jet. It's also quite grating to see it written like we should be grateful that we are even allowed to donate to her.
And if she's even half the genius she's claiming to be, why aren't the big tech companies in a bidding war over who get to pay her a million-dollar salary?
From what I've read of her in the past she seems to be a pretty damn good developer. But in the open source world those are a dime a dozen. If you want to make a living off of it you've got to market yourself, and this... isn't how you do that.
> From what I've read of her in the past she seems to be a pretty damn good developer. But in the open source world those are a dime a dozen
Not exactly. Very few people in recent decades have achieved anything comparable to αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε and Cosmopolitan libc - they're in the category of "that should not even be possible". Of course, Tunney's work doesn't touch Fabrice Bellard in terms of sheer breadth and impact, but they're arguably in the same category.