Effectively funding FOSS projects is HARD. We wound up with GPG and OpenSSL maintained by tiny teams going broke because we hadn't figured out how to get people paid for the jobs they were doing.
We took an approach to that, and we've produced the code. I don't see that as a problem. My permanent project, http://hexayurt.com is a fully FOSS refugee building solution that hasn't taken people's money (not a charity, and we don't accept cash donations) and there are good reasons for that, but not all public works can be produced by volunteers. Sometimes you need 100% of a professional for years, and unless they're going to live on the streets, their rent needs to be paid.
We should not require FOSS programmers to self-fund.
>Well that fact that you and your buddies are busy down voting me speaks for itself...
There's a reason this is in the HN guidelines.
I'd just like to note I'm not their buddies and specifically downvoted you because:
1. You're repeating yourself.
2. You're not being realistic about what it takes to write a complicated programming project.
3. You're not really being clear what about their crowdfunding position 'stinks' besides that crowdfunding is commonly used to fund scams (and even that I got through inference).
