...i say "no different than any other charity"... except it ...

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The arbiter. you're putting all your trust in whoever is selected as the "arbiter"/escrow. no different than any other charity that decides when and w...

...i say "no different than any other charity"... except it also couldn't be more different. There is next to zero middleman involved here. There's nothing stopping the OSS team from being its own arbiter. As long as the funders trust the team enough to not rug them, this would mean 2 of the 3 roles are played by the developers, and the last role is played by the funder(s) - which is to say: Direct community-funded software, no 501c-whatever nudging in between.

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