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If you say something like "Dont worry its not illegal you'll be fine" you really need a link to some proof. :)
https://is.fi/taloussanomat/art-2000001494059.html https://rescue.fi/article.php/20070131_effi It was only district court but the prosecutor did not seek the court of appeals (which they legally have to do if there's a chance their view might succeed), leaving the precedent.
It makes me sad to see developers donating time and effort to support an ecosystem (VSCode) built explicitly to spy on users and promote proprietary software. The fact that VSC's core is released under an open source license is irrelevant to the harm that is being done.
Can you elaborate? As for as I've seen, disabling telemetry in VSCode is pretty straight forward.
VSCodium is recommended as an alternative https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
(Project on which I received donation: https://github.com/mockoon/mockoon)
I know that feeling. Few years back someone asked me if I accept Bitcoin as donation for an SDK I wrote https://github.com/namaggarwal/splitwise It felt so good that I went ahead and create a wallet and he donated me some fractional BTC. It wasn't much at that time but it motivated me a lot.
hope you kept it and sold it a few days ago when BTC hit 40K USD. yes?
Accepting Monero and Bitcoin costs you nothing and is a great way of solicitating donations as cryptocurrency users are historically massive donors.
There's always a time cost with financial things, at least. Some tax authority probably expects you to track and report that income, and will want their share.
Do you get in trouble with the Tax Man because you tip your server at a restaurant or gives some spare change to the someone on the street?
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There's always a time cost with financial things, at least. Some tax authority probably expects you to track and report that income, and will want their share.
We are not talking about hundreds or thousands of dollars here, are we? Do you get in trouble with the Tax Man because you tip your server at a restaurant or gives some spare change to the someone on the street?
Receiving and not reporting? Maybe, depending on local laws and how zealous the tax enforcer is. This probably falls into the category of "Not allowed, but too small to worry about." That works fine, until they decide to audit you for some other reason.
I got my first GitHub Sponsor the other day and even though it is just $1 / month it made me feel like a rockstar. Also I got $3 on BuyMeACoffee a few months ago and it was wonderful.
Keep up the good work.
I’m pretty excited about the GitHub Sponsors feature opening up worldwide, think it can actually help foster a culture of contributing back to the people whose work we all use. They’ve got an interesting page where they show you all the sponsorable projects you depend on, sorted by the most heavily depended-on projects first. Besides voluntary contributions I want to see maintainers refusing to take feature requests…
Or the other case. I have created many pull requests in the past which had been only a few lines to fix an existing bug but they did never merge it. Sometimes i received notifications for years from other people asking why it is not meged and they had to fork (and maintain) it to fix this bug. Just saying here are 50$ if you merge it would be a life-saver. No more maintaining a fork just to fix a bug which is not a priority of the owner who prefers adding more and more features.
My point is open source does not need to be free work from the maintainer. A platform like github could change the game by allowing people to get a small payment for what they are doing. But not like their actual plan by just giving them money, i want to connect it to a "problem" to solve (resolve issue, add feature, merge pr, ...)