Bountysource Stole at Least $21,000 From Open Source Developers
This is why people say the open source ecosystem sucks.
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Hi! I wrote this <3
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Sure! I've been meaning to depoy hedgedoc for a while now and this seems like a good use. Here you go: https://doc.boehs.org/s/socials
::: spoiler fixed; ignore Edit: Why does nothing ever work. Immediately hit some obscure error because of a cloudflare minifier edgecase: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/cache-minify-breaking-script/386650/11, well if you do a view source you'll see it
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Edit 2: You can also verify by asking at any of the methods in https://boehs.org/contact
Also, could you please update the title of your fediverse post? The article now says 21k 🙂
I cannot maths sometime 😩
It happens to the best of us 🙂
Updated.
Crypto ghouls strike again!
Funny how Bountysource deteriorated at the exact time cryptocurrency got involved.
I don't like the comment "this is why people say the open source ecosystem sucks" because a bankruptcy of a company has nothing to do with the concept of open source.
If you read through some of my other stuff, I mostly document controversy in the open source community. OSS developers being taken advantage of and loosing is just the norm, the only thing unique here is that the donation platform itself was doing that instead of the users
I didn't and it doesn't matter because you wrote it under this article and so it's related to it. I'm not saying that it's not true, but it can't be related to this fact.
That's why I provided 18 citations for that claim in the first paragraph
Right? like the probably 50-100k they stole in total is whatever, but the fact they stole it from underpaid OSS developers and generous community members is disgusting.
I might apply for funding to research the real number that was stolen...
Are there better open source bounty sites/systems?
The best option is to just support the developer/project by the method they prefer the most (ko-fi/patreon/crypto/beer/t-shirts etc).
If the project doesn't accept any donations but accepts code contributions instead (or you want to develop something that doesn't exist), you can directly hire a freelancer to work on what you want, from sites like freelancer.com.
Some options are listed here https://www.oss.fund/categories/bounties/
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