The Economics of Open Source Donations
Found an interesting article entitled The Economics of Open Source Donations. Very interesting read, especially for any non-commercial OSS project (like Annvix). I think most people don’t understand the actual cost of writing/hosting/developing/whatever an OSS project, and this brings it to bear a little bit, about why donating to OSS projects is good and helps the projects out, and also makes you understand a little bit of what it costs to the author(s)… which is often more than just “spare time”.
It’s an interesting read, regardless.
