Those are one shot successes, hardly a model to follow for anyone that needs a steady source of income to pay things like mortgage, employees and such.
Maybe so; can you point out those cases where the average payment for a pay-what-you-want sale was no higher than the absolute minimum?
hardly a model to follow for anyone that needs a steady source of income to pay things like mortgage, employees and such.
That's a very different claim from what I was contesting.
But in any case, it may work in when you have modest needs; Joey Hess just got his second year of development of Git-Annex funded[1]. Of course, not everyone is willing to work for $15k/year, even if it comes with few strings attached, particularly obviously talented and experienced developers like him.
Maybe so; can you point out those cases where the average payment for a pay-what-you-want sale was no higher than the absolute minimum?
hardly a model to follow for anyone that needs a steady source of income to pay things like mortgage, employees and such.
That's a very different claim from what I was contesting.
But in any case, it may work in when you have modest needs; Joey Hess just got his second year of development of Git-Annex funded[1]. Of course, not everyone is willing to work for $15k/year, even if it comes with few strings attached, particularly obviously talented and experienced developers like him.
[1] https://campaign.joeyh.name/