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by RyanZAG 3150 days ago
Most of SO's operations are something I would not like to fund. I'd be happy to donate for their core service, but that's really only 10% or less of their headcount. Who funds the other 90% and why would they want to?

SO is too big to go for a Wikipedia style model unless they strip off just the core SO part and relevant engineers and make only that part donation based. And I'd guess the other 90% would end up in layoffs anyway.
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kjxsnht43 3150 days ago
> Most of SO's operations are something I would not like to fund.

Can you elaborate? Do you mean the other stack exchange sites like Photography, Gardening, Software Engineering, etc.? Or the careers site, or something else entirely? I'm only aware of the Stack Exchange network and careers.

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stingraycharles 3150 days ago
Keep in mind that the Wikimedia Foundation also spends about 85% of the money they raise on things other than operational costs [1] (servers + engineering).

[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=File%3A2014...

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fjsolwmv 3149 days ago
Plus another 20% for product development, and some other fuzzy categories like outreach
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